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Originally Posted by ron lafuddy
There are some things that leave a mark on your memory - and your soul, aren't there?.
Kent State was NIxon drawing a line in the sand, wasn't it? Another undeclared war. Sides were chosen. Winner??
This was a big one for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot
I remember seeing the tanks and armed troop convoys roll past my street.
The army did what the cops, state police and the national guard could not. Put down the riot.
The cost?
There was blood in the streets. Horror stories that never made it into the press coverage. Secrets of the dead.
Afterwards and over the years, they put all sorts of "bandages" in place, with money and whatnot.
But the city never really recovered.
Time does not heal all wounds. Sometimes they fester below the surface. Rising here and there, like a pool of molten lava.
Kicked like a can, down the corridor of time. Waiting for some future generation to deal with.
This discussion has given me much to think about and too many notes-to-self. Like I needed that!
Darn you, Gordon!
Thanks, for the perspective. Some of which can only come with time, lived and experienced.
Ten 4 back atcha!
Ron |
Thanks Ron,
I had a good buddy in the Navy whose dad was a Detroit cop at the time. Tough going.
Not that anyone need do this, but Tallmadge OH on a map shows a circle where 8 streets come together.
I see the cans from past generations, the one on West Ave. which has been kicked down the hill and toward the circle, call it civil rights or equal rights or even civility rights. That can is entering the circle.
Along with the cans the generations (including mine) have let our children's
children's
children to deal with.
Cans of race, environment, energy, food, water, population, technology nightmares...
and it just seems to me, this is where we are at.
I could be wrong, of course, Trump has too much Tricky Dick in him, and Hillary has had too little of Bill's dick in her.
So, the next few years the shaken hard cans will be opened all at once.
Detroit burned, Cleveland burned, LA, and today, at "their" disposal isn't the National Guard/Military who tend to follow orders...
they have the Blackwater type Mercs, who have no "rules of engagement". Today, there won't be 4 dead in Ohio, there will be 4,000.
GordonJ