[knarf]

Bakat'cha', bro

I think the beginning of my socio/political consciousness was being in conversation with a black GI telling me he had no quarrel with those yellow guys ... he still had trouble with the white ones.

I met an Australian guy that had joined to become a citizen and we became friends. He'd already done a tour in country and I never met a soldier that pretty much dared the cadre to give him a hard time ... and they DID give him leeway ... probably because he was a few months from discharge and he WAS a badass.

HIS comments made sense

Some other guy had an album that had the song Universal Soldier and I had NEVER heard such thinking before

Somewhere around that time Sgt Pepper's showed up ....

I couldn't HELP but be a hippy when I got out

I lived in Boston and I heard Eldridge Cleaver and Abbie Hoffman speak on the Boston Common and the girls were friggin' EVERYwhere for the pickin'

Any and every thing anyone had ever tried to teach me faded too rapidly for hedonism, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

I met Jesus in '81 and I have been steady workin' on myself tryin' to correct a whole BUNCH'A shit.

[Fiji Hill]

"The Universal Soldier" is one of the stupidest songs of all time. It implies that all soldiers are evil and that without them, the world would be at peace.

Here's a richly-deserved rejoinder:

The Universal Coward--Jan Berry (1965)

[Little Bill]

I saw Buffy Saint Marie sing that in Boston on the week she became a citizen. She was smoken hot.