  Attendees remember March on Washington on anniversary  August
28, 2013 By Mary Haley , For the Mirror   He wasn't sure what to
expect. He just knew he had to be there.  Imgrund was a young
deacon of the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese at the time.
But he didn't go as a member of a religious group or as part of
a specific organization. Even years later, he still can't really
put into words why he felt he had to go. He said he just felt
drawn by something inside himself.  "I felt like I didn't have a
choice. I just had to go,'' Imgrund said. "It was very
important, an important part of our history. I knew people from
other parts of the country were going, and I had to go, too. I
didn't have a choice.''  What struck everyone once they got to
the gathering place in the nation's capital was that almost half
the people there were white, Imgrund said. The marchers had
expected that most of the people who showed up would be African-
American, but they were buoyed by the fact that the crowd was
almost half full of