Re: The Summer Of Love/Vets

Joe McDonald (borneo@mail.dnai.com)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 01:29:08 +0100

Joe, I really need say, "I just don't get it!"

Yes, i must say that it seems you dont get it! and that is too bad! You
have not internalized the experienced and touched the killer in
yourself. Would you have killed for the "revolution"? And what penalty
did you pay if you left the "revolution".
My own revolution begain at birth to my communist party parents. my own
progressive credentials go back that far. If you think you are innocent
than you are misleading yourself. If the generation believes that those
who served in the military have only themselves to blame then we dont
understand the system.
I dont know many anti-war protesters who are helping North Vietnamese
Army and Liberation Front veterans today to get over their war
experiences. Maybe you do. Or maybe you believe that one can just pick
and choose their causes and that there are those who deserve compassion
and those who do not. There is much i do not know about you. But i
have heard the political rap before and it doesnt slow me down. What
does your heart say to those who have family who died? And what do you
think of yourself for not answering that call? And do you think that
you would be special "fodder" for the USA or the revolution.
These deaths are the result of "our" folly so we must grieve. I have
been working on this angle for about 15 years and dont have any spare
time to put into the other names. But i suggest that if you really feel
that they deserve a memorial that you do it. You are not the first
civilian to suggest this to me. But if you are just trying to put me in
my place dont bother. I know my place and maybe you dont. I served in
both entities Military and Peace Movement and know the difference
between the two.

> Regarding our own history Joe, as you might have said on your lp "Together",
> lets call a spade a spade!

I have no idea what this means: the sign of US Airborne; we're both
black; a killer is a killer; hmmmmmmmm i am curious now, Miles what did
you mean?
country joe mcdonald

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