Posted on 09/15/2009 9:11:13 AM PDT by AJKauf
In 1967, I was the radical Alinsky wrote the rules for. On the political cutting edge, I’d been arguing with fellow students and coworkers for years about Vietnam, and my growing disgust with my country led me down many winding roads of anti-American thought. I was counterculture before there was a name for it, skipping my prom and graduation as “bourgeois,” going barefoot, braless, and unshaven, and collecting tattoos at the only place in town those days — a crummy hole-in-the-wall next to downtown D.C.’s Greyhound station.
Everything about me was about making a statement. And while it was pretty exciting for me as a young woman to create a new identity based on rejection of the status quo, for years I’d felt like I was alone.
Then suddenly I discovered I wasn’t.
On October 21, a crisp, clear D.C. day, I arrived with my boyfriend at my first anti-war protest and felt a thrill of belonging and hope. The Pentagon grounds were churning with 50,000 or so people like us — a curious conglomeration of serious anti-American academic types (like me) and sha-la-la-la-la-live-for-today potheads (like him)....
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Poor kid...by 1967, there wasn’t anything new OR radical happening. Just followers.
Really good piece. Thanks for posting it.
Here are the pics she took on 9/12. Some really good ones in there:
http://picasaweb.google.com/BarbarasMommyLife/912MarchOnWashingtonDC?feat=embedwebsite#
bttt
Proof that it’s never too late to be redeemed.
This isn’t a case of “here we go again”- this is the reality of what is going on everyday in the good ol USA. The retaliation for this insident will show up somewhere in another part of the country, completing the cycle.
And this woman was reconciled, it appears, not only to our Lord (her born-again moment)--but to our nation and its founding fathers' defense of the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (meaning blessed, which comes from obedience to God's law, and not exercise of human license!)
Very Good Article!
[going barefoot, braless, and unshaven, and collecting tattoos at the only place in town those days — a crummy hole-in-the-wall next to downtown D.C.’s Greyhound station.]
That’s just gross.
LOL! There was lots of gross stuff going on back in those days........
Wonderfully written article and interesting point of view due to her life experiences.
‘wonderfully written article’...indeed.
I get sickened when these people of the "Era Of Love" have their Jesus moment after Sh#tting on us for years.
Could it be possible that we, the scorned and the denigrated, have raised some of our kids to have a realistic view of life?
Not if you've never blown up a building, robbed a bank, or made LSD, you weren't.
And Barbara, as another former 'radical' leftist, I know that socialism is the conceit of immature minds who want easy answers to tough questions. May we live to see our USA regain its former glory and respect for individual freedom, justice and plain common sense!
Great read! Real life turned her around. She “gets it!”. And she knows how the other side thinks.
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