Joe: Please explain something to me. Anyone who went to fight in
Vietnam went to a country incapable of hurting the United States:
no air force, no fleet. The simplest kid with any kind of
morality whatever -- religious, you name it -- was capable of
understanding that. So he was an invader, a killer of people who
couldn't do anything to his country. Why should I memorialize
such people?
In all sincerity,
Bill Mandel
Joe McDonald wrote:
>
> > In the last few years i have performed 2 times at the Vietnam Veterans
> > Memorial in Washington DC, both Memorial Day and Veterans Day of the 10
> > Anniversary year. i am listed on their stationary as a member of the
> > Honorary Advisory Committee and have been since 1982. i have built the
> > world's first ever interactive war memorial on the City of Berkeley
> > California Home Page, its 4th Anniversary will be this Veterans Day 2000. i
> > was instrumental in having a bronze placque installed permanently on the
> > City of Berkeley Veterans' Memorial Building. i was instrumental in having
> > the City of Beacon, New York, the home town of the folk singer Peter
> > Seeger, honor its Vietnam War Casualties. i have been working now for 5
> > years on getting the city of San Francsico California to honor it's 162
> > Vietnam War Casualites with a bronze placque and also an internet Memorial
> > Site. i plan to discuss the same with Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland
> > California to coincide with the Oakland Museum's 2003 exhibit NEXT STOP IS
> > VIETNAM. i have facilitated the presence on a travelling Vietnam War
> > Memorial in the City of Berkeley, and San Francisco, California. i was
> > instrumental in having a travelling Vietnam War Memorial present at the
> > 30th Anniversary Celebration in Golden Gate Park a few years back and a
> > reading of all of the names of those Americans killed in the American War
> > in Vietnam during the Summer of Love.
>
> As a U S Navy volunteer enlistee and honorably discharged Vietnam War Era
> Veteran i assume the responsibility of honoring the deaths of my comrades in
> the military during that conflict. As the only visible person from my
> generation who is not only a known anti war activist, a red diaper baby and a
> Vietnam Era military veteran i have taken it upon myself to try and
> facilitate the wounds inflicted upon my generation by the American War in
> Vietnam. i am not ashamed of my anti war activities, my Communist background
> nor my military service.
>
> i am curious if the list has any comments or thoughts on this subject of
> memorializing the American Vietnam War dead.
>
> cheers, country joe mcdonald
>
> -- "Ira Furor Brevis Est " - Anger is a brief madness
>
> country joe Home Pg <http://www.countryjoe.com>
> country joe's tribute to Florence Nightingale
> <http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale>
> Berkeley Vietnam Veterans Memorial
> <http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Links/Comm/vvm>
> Rag Baby Online Magazine <http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine>
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