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George McGovern

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4. "To a point" . . .So very many people never did get the other point!
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 05:33 PM
Jun 4

What a poignant article! After high school in my little north-central CT town
I had no such actions were being carried out. I was struck by this raid response: "The first draft-board raid in the state, and possibly the first nationwide, took place in Elk River when Barry Bondhus poured two buckets of human excrement into the Selective Service files there in February of 1966. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison."

In retrospect I'd call war resisters real heroes. So much tragedy. In my 30s I had opportunity to visit a traveling replica of The Wall. I knew no names thereon. But I heard a voice reading aloud the names on the wall. I signed up
to read, volunteered to take a shift and at night-time spoke to an audience of zero. It was an awesome, humbling experience nonetheless.
I have very much appreciated the music you've posted today. Helped me realize "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." The
lyric induced these two comments on its meaning found on Reddit:

"I used to know everything, now I realize I don’t know anything."

"I think you’re right. It is not the same meaning but for me, for unknown reasons, it sent my mind to Bob Seger's equally cool line. ‘I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then’.

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