I lived in the Yokosuka Naval Base for several years when I was a kid between the ages of 8 and 11 (1967 - 1970)
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I was in and out of Yokosuka 57-60 and homeported there 60-62. Yes, the demonstrations were definitely ‘street theater’ and had to do with Nuclear armed and powered ships.
(Any excuse for a get together).
Funny how the Merchants, Bar Keeps etal were ‘quiet’ about the ‘demonstrations’ until it started to take a toll on their business. THEN they started to ‘fight back’.
If the Govt etal had any gonads, they would tell the ‘rioters’ in Ferguson to wrap it up AND tell the Merchants that there would be NO ‘Urban renewal’ plan...
Watch names get dropped and arrests start then. As long as the ‘Authorities’ continue to ‘protect’ the demonstrators, the people trapped there can take NO action....
Tell the press to go home and quit interviewing these clowns and it will end quickly.
BTW, I ‘looked’ at your page and your father looks vaguely familiar (the ‘official portrait) of course I am at the age where about every other person one sees they swear they have seen them before.....<: <: <:
What ships were you on? My dad was on some tin cans near that time frame (USS Rooks, USS Bristol, and a supply ship USS Oglethorpe (LOL...un less my brain is getting mixed up with the movie Slapshot!)