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wantok · Joined: 05 Jul 2012 Posts: 168

What it is ain't exactly clear.

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/15/207856.html

Be sure to wear a flower in your hair, ladies.

johnslat · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:34 pm Post subject:

Dear wantok,

For What It's Worth - I don't think any of them will be crowned king any time soon.

Regards,
Buffalo Springfield John

wantok · Joined: 05 Jul 2012 Posts: 168

There's a whole generation with a new explanation.

Paranoia strikes deep. Into your life it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid. You step out of line, the CPVPV come and take you away.

You're gonna meet some gentle people there.

johnslat · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:03 am Post subject:

Dear wantok,

That (For What It's Worth) is my personal "coming back from Vietnam" (1966) song. Love it.

Regards,
John

Captain Willard · Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 251

Those brewing who are not living in Western compounds are particularly paranoid.

wantok · Joined: 05 Jul 2012 Posts: 168

Johnslat: And when you arrived at the Port of San Francisco, were there indeed gentle people with flowers in their hair??

And did you feel all across the nation such a strange vibration?

And see people in motion, particularly those singing songs and carrying signs, and mostly saying hooray for our side?

Just wondering,

Conscientious Objector

johnslat · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject:

Dear wantiok,

I didn't return at the "port of San Francisco" but landed at El Toro - and saw no"gentle people with flowers in their hair (though I left from San Francisco in 1965.)

"During the 1960s, many US Marines left for and returned from Vietnam at El Toro MCAS."

But the atmosphere in the States had certainly changed significantly in 1967 from what it had been in 1965. Lots of people "inging songs and carrying signs" - though most weren't saying "hooray for our side."

Shortly after returning, I joined the VVAW, sang a few songs and marched, and sent my Purple Heart and campaign medals/ribbons by registered mail to Senator Ted Kennedy (who never acknowledged receipt.)

But who knows - maybe it played a very small part in bringing this about:

"By the time of a January 1968 trip to Vietnam, Kennedy was disillusioned by the lack of U.S. progress, and suggested publicly that the U.S. should tell South Vietnam, "Shape up or we're going to ship out."

Regards,
John

wantok · Joined: 05 Jul 2012 Posts: 168

Alas, sir, during your sojourn when surely you passed through Haight-Ashbury, you would have been two years premature to the psychedelia which ensued.

A shame, really, to have missed the hoopla promoted by Scott McKenzie, Janis, et alia -- though it seems you did sing motivating songs, and carried compelling signs, with Forrest a few years later.

But then again, you experienced a stint of a different sort of hoopla. Your students are Grateful you're not Dead, no?

Honourable Ted M is also noted for the expediency with which he personally expressed sentiments to Bay State families of 9/11 victims. Forgive him his bureaucratic omissions.

Yep, People are Strange.