Doomed to repeat history
from Reason to Freedom
by Michelle
07/25/07
My brother joined the Army in 1970 along with many of the older brothers and boyfriends in our neighborhood. Many of us too young to go protested the war at the University of Houston campus and Milby Park because we felt that the government lied us into war. We saw firsthand how many of them died and were wounded; we saw our mothers worry if they were the next family to get a visit from the Army guys whose job it was to deliver the worst news a mom can get. We protested even though the same moms and dads supported the war as did everyone’s teachers, coaches and other adults. We were called dirty hippies, told to leave our country of birth, called treasonous and commie pinko trash. Pretty much what I still get called today when we protest yet another senseless war...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Michelle
07/25/07
My brother joined the Army in 1970 along with many of the older brothers and boyfriends in our neighborhood. Many of us too young to go protested the war at the University of Houston campus and Milby Park because we felt that the government lied us into war. We saw firsthand how many of them died and were wounded; we saw our mothers worry if they were the next family to get a visit from the Army guys whose job it was to deliver the worst news a mom can get. We protested even though the same moms and dads supported the war as did everyone’s teachers, coaches and other adults. We were called dirty hippies, told to leave our country of birth, called treasonous and commie pinko trash. Pretty much what I still get called today when we protest yet another senseless war...
http://tinyurl.com/38mb77
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 26. Jul, 12:59
