HAPPY MAY DAY!...................
In Southern California - the First of May can be rainy, cool, heavy cloud cover, drizzly, blazing hot - or all three in the same day. Looks like a day with dark, heavy cloud cover, there’s a reason we call it “May Gray.”
The is the Mayday that I always think of, I was having quite an adventure.
rom Wikipedia:
“At one point, so many soldiers and Marines were being moved into the area from bases along the East Coast that troop transports were landing at the rate of one every three minutes at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, about 15 miles east of the White House.
Among these troops were 4,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division.
Troops from the Marine Barracks lined both sides of the 14th St bridge. These troops were to back up the 5,100 officers of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, 2,000 members of the D.C. National Guard and federal agents that were already in place.
Every monument, park and traffic circle in the nation’s capital had troops protecting its perimeters. Paratroopers and Marines deployed via helicopter to the grounds of the Washington Monument.”
(snip)
“”While the troops secured the major intersections and bridges, the police roamed through the city making massive arrest sweeps and used tear gas. They arrested anyone who looked like a demonstrator, including construction workers who had come out to support the government. By 8 am 7,000 protesters had been arrested.
The city’s prisons did not have the capacity to handle that many people thus several emergency detention centers were setup including the Washington Coliseum and another one surrounded by an 8-foot-high (2.4 m) fence was set up next to RFK Stadium.
No food, water, or sanitary facilities were made available by authorities but sympathetic local residents brought supplies.
Skirmishes between protesters and police
occurred up until about mid-day. In Georgetown, the police herded the protesters and onlookers through the streets to the Georgetown University campus. The police then engaged in a back and forth with the protesters outside the university’s main gate on O Street, lobbing
tear gas over the gate each time they pushed the crowd back. Other forms of gas were used including pepper based and one that induced vomiting. Police helicopters also dropped tear gas on the university’s lower athletic field where protesters had camped the night before.
Numerous people were severely injured and treated by volunteers on campus. By afternoon the police had suppressed the disruption efforts and the protesters had mainly dispersed””
Next several days:
“”Smaller protests continued resulting in the arrests of several thousand more, bringing the total to 12,614 people, making this the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.””
The Thaelmann Batallion--Ernst Busch (1938)
Moscow-Peking--The All-Union Radio Orchestra & Chorus (1950)
The Song of the [Socialist Unity] Party--Ernst Busch with the Berlin Opera Company(1950)
Stalin, Friend & Comrade--Ernst Busch (1958)
The Stars Over Moscow (aka I Praised My Homeland)--Leonid Kostritsa (1954)
Song of the United Armies--sine nomine (1958)
Ohhh the May-hem
May day Malone
[To Diane in court]
Sam: To me, our relationship makes perfect sense. You want me to propose to you, I propose to you. You say no, I say fine, I never wanna see you again. You drive me nuts telling me you want me to propose again, I do, you turn me down. Next thing I know I’m in a court of law where I’ve got to propose to you or go to jail. It’s the classic American love story.
HAPPY KARL MARX IS ROASTING IM THE PIT OF HELL DAY!
May Day was a big deal my grade school in the 50s. Each class would work up some sort of entertainment families would be invited and the big finish was a May Pole Dance.
“Horray….Horray! First of May! Outdoor necking starts today!”
In memory of what I saw on the “Wall” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on May first of 1966.
Before the campus went Communist.
