Love/Vets/Niggers

Joe McDonald (borneo@mail.dnai.com)
Mon, 01 Sep 1997 05:22:20 +0100

i also know of a copy of Student As Nigger and remember very well my
student dayz with Jerry Farber. this copy is paper if interested.

I am delighted to find that my post about the Summer of Love and Vietnam
Veterans is gettting so much response. I suspected we had some strong
misunderstandings and the sort..let me start over.

On October 12th there will be a FREE concert in Golden Gate Park in San
Francisco with Rock Bands on a soccer field. There will also be a 1/2
scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Wash DC 245x5 feet,
with 58,000 plus names on the other end of the field. My research
turned up the statistic that 2,687 of those names died during June 1st
to August 31st 1967, The Summer Of Love.
At 9am we will hold a ceremony to honor their service and valor to each
other and sacrifice for the American system. We will spend about 3
seconds for each of those 2,687 people by reading their names aloud.
And we will face the wall and each other...many for the first time.
We have been the most written about generation America has produced and
it is tragic that we meet at the wall at last. Did Maya Lin know that?
Did Jan Scruggs know that? That the survivors of the 60's wars would
stand before a wall of names with their own childrens refection bouncing
off the fallen flower children of another age?
No one joins the military or the "movement" to get rich. That'z a good
place to start. As Rodney King said "Cant we all just get along"

But I dont feel so comfortable
With todayz push and shove
And I find myself wanting to, be
back in the Summer of Love.

There'z juz one last hill to take an that'z capitol hill.

-- 
"Life is no finishing school for young ladies."  Jaroslav Hasek, The
Good Soldier Svejk
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