[mac_truck]

(wearing the uniform at a demonstration/sit-in/march in THOSE faraway days would have gotten you "tossed out on your ear".)

By whom?

I can't imagine the Memphis garbage men cared whether their supporters were in uniform or not. Their concerns were more basic.

[stand watie]

by the ROTC leadership, of course. and RIGHTLY SO, imVho. (after all we participated in the march as individuals, rather than ROTC cadets! OR even as OFFICIAL representatives of our college!)

btw, are you SURE that that pix is from the MARCH or is it from the demonstration, the week before OR perhaps from the STRIKE (looks like the PICKET-LINE, to me)???

as i said, the garbagemen & the students were told to "dress up" for the actual march. those men do NOT look "dressed up" to me. do they look that way to you???

ALSO (and OFF the subject),: the sight of ACTIVE-duty miliary persons IN UNIFORM demonstrating against the WAR in Iraq/Afganistan REALLY is UPSETTING to this old soldier! (they'd better be glad that i'm NOT their CO!)

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

"mac" check out the picture of Dr King & the other men in the picture that "Bubba" posted in #484.

though i do NOT believe that it was from Memphis, it WILL show you that everyone was "dressed up" for the march, which was TYPICAL for those days. (IF you had been DUMB enough to show up "dirty", "raggedy" or in LESS than "decent attire", you would have been asked to LEAVE, imVho!)

when one garbageman, on the day of the march on Memphis, said he didn't HAVE a coat & tie, one was FOUND for him to wear for the march. i'm sure he was NOT the ONLY one in borrowed clothes!

free dixie,sw