According to a friend of mine who came from Boston to participate, the license for the event was for 10,000 people. It started at 11:00 AM, but by 8:00 AM there were over 11,000 people gathering. The organizers and National Park Service had to completely reconfigure the event at that point. According to the NPS, there were over 1 million people.
I have not heard the 2 million people figure f
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