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A single shot rang out and Martin King Jr fell - he was killed not by someone in a distant battlefield but by those here in the USA who with a single shot snuffed out the light we call freedom of speech, the light men in past wars had died for to protect and to insure.
He was making anti-war speeches during the Nam years in protest of violence as a means to reach our objectives.
Martin King Jr was not the only one who wanted to stop the mounting body counts or a seemingly endless "war" - which Nixon called a "police action". Protesters acorss the nation were beat down with billy clubs and tossed into jails when they attempted to protest the war in a non-violent way, their freedoms of speech also smashed by the very government who was supposed to be representing our Consitution.
Students were killed at Kent State. Orange tear gas filled the air and the world had gone totally insane. The crys for peace were rejected.
No one knew just why the conflict in Nam was so important, the men on the battlefield was not even sure which of the people were the enemy and which ones they were there to save. Who would protect us from our self was really the main question, and no answers were ever forthcoming.
The only distraction from the insanity was more drugs - getting high to forget and to escape form the confusion and lack of trust in humanity. The needle also took a few lives in those days, some famous people and many that remain as the unknown victims of that era.
Yes, we had to live under the fears of a nuclear doomsday for a couple of generations now, ever since that day in 1945, thur the 50s and 60s - and even today. The peaceniks almost won and plans were set forth to get rid of nuclear bombs and technology, but the rug again was pulled out from under us, we started producing more bombs, stock piling them in mass, year after year. Now Iran and N.K. want nuclear power also and we think we are rightiousness to try to prevent that, that which we created on earth. How long - how long- will we will move blindly forward is anyones guess.
Yes, King was shot, John Lennon was shot, but the movement has not stopped, "Give Peace a Chance goddamit" Yes, I remember Crazy Horse also.
Yes I remember those on the other side, those whom the meida will ignore on a holiday such as today. Not all of the fallen were holding guns, some of them had signs, or a song to sing.
Written by Tomcat.
