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To: JoyjoyfromNJ
They're claiming it's the date of the 40th anniversary of the anti-war march on Pentagon.

2007 is the 40th anniversary, but not the month/day.
I posted the link to the "Levitate the Pentagon" march in post #1.

On October 21, 1967, 70,000 demonstrators came to Washington, D.C. to "Confront the War Makers." This was the first of the biannual Anti-War demonstrations to fuse protest with the whimsicality of the counter culture and to take civil disobedience to new levels of confrontation. It would become the prototype for the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago -- except that the latter was marred by extensive police violence.

506 posted on 02/20/2007 11:24:54 AM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Just A Nobody
You know, I was in Vietnam when the first demonstrations started. I felt like someone had stuck a bayonet between my shoulder blades. I think it's about time for some payback.

Along the same lines, the rabble have essentially held the streets for the past 40 years. (no disrespect to those few warriors who have so valiantly opposed them) I really believe that this could be a turning point in history. It just may be that when we show up in numbers, take away their free reign of the streets, take away their anonymity and their monopoly on the press, we can make these dirtbags slink back to their rocks and crawl under them once and for all.

We have allowed them the freedom of the streets for too long. It's time to take them back!

507 posted on 02/20/2007 6:12:12 PM PST by oneolcop (Take off the gloves!)
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To: Just A Nobody

"October 21, 1967 levitate the Pentagon"


I expect ANSWER to do something around that date here in 2007 in DC (probably ANOTHER march to the Pentagon), so keep your eyes and ears open.


522 posted on 02/22/2007 9:02:31 AM PST by Thunder90
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To: Just A Nobody
On October 21, 1967, 70,000 demonstrators came to Washington, D.C. to "Confront the War Makers."

You can read the details in Mailer's Armies of the Night - "a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and sub-titled History as a Novel/The Novel as History. Mailer essentially creates his own genre for the narrative, split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. Mailer's unique rendition of the non-fiction novel (a form coined, at least, in 1965) was one of only a few at the time, and received the most critical attention."

This genre was later used to great success by Bob Woodward.

I was at FT Bragg in Basic Training at the time. They sent a contigent of the 82nd up to guard the Pentagon.

532 posted on 02/22/2007 2:53:31 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Jane Fonda was type cast in the movie "Klute")
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