(CBS) NEW YORK They're back. Those opinionated octogenarians who made headlines last fall by trying to enlist in the military to stop the War in Iraq.

Now, they're heading to Washington D.C. for the Fourth of July.

With wheelchairs, walkers, canes and pictures of their grandchildren on their backs, the Granny Brigade was back in Times Square, the scene of their arrest last fall for blocking the entrance to the Military Recruitment Center to stop the war.

This time, they're kicking off a 10-day trek to the nation's capital.

"We want to wake up an apathetic American public," Joan Wile, the Brigade's founder said. "Maybe they're against the war, maybe they're not. But they're totally indifferent."

Actress Barbara Barrie says the next 10 days of marches and rallies by these gutsy grannies will make a difference.

Barrie said the White House has got to hear it, "whether they like it or not."

Some of these spry seniors even saw Saturday's driving rain in metaphoric terms.

"It's the tears of the mothers of the 2,500 killed," Vinie Burrows said. "The mothers and fathers."

And the oldest among them, 91-year-old Marie Runyon, would love to speak directly to President Bush to tell him, "you've made the whole world hate us. What you've done is illegal and immoral and I think you need a psychiatrist."

From here, this pugilistic pack is headed over the Brooklyn Bridge for a rally Sunday on Staten Island.