Kristy I could just paste your post here, I’m 75 and the next trip I make in two weeks will be to a hospital for a neurological surgeon. But I can still be mouthy and I am seeing wonderful exhilarating news clips and I remember very well on my 19th birthday marching the streets of DC running around the tear gas, pepper spray and so on and on until Nixon was gone!
Kristy I could just paste your post here, I’m 75 and the next trip I make in two weeks will be to a hospital for a neurological surgeon. But I can still be mouthy and I am seeing wonderful exhilarating news clips and I remember very well on my 19th birthday marching the streets of DC running around the tear gas, pepper spray and so on and on until Nixon was gone!
Me too, the January 1969 Counter-Inaugural, two weeks shy of my 19th birthday. Started demonstrating in 1966. Not healthy enough to march today - wish I could.
No I was at the demonstration in San Francisco. It was the first time the middle-aged showed up, so our group, chanting, "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, NLF is going to win!" was frowned on. I figured that if regular Americans were protesting, I didn't have to show up any more. I'd been demonstrating for over 4 years, and I didn't think I had to any more. I did go to an anti Cambodia demonstration in April 1970, I think, and that was my last one.
Kristy I could just paste your post here, I’m 75 and the next trip I make in two weeks will be to a hospital for a neurological surgeon. But I can still be mouthy and I am seeing wonderful exhilarating news clips and I remember very well on my 19th birthday marching the streets of DC running around the tear gas, pepper spray and so on and on until Nixon was gone!
Me too, the January 1969 Counter-Inaugural, two weeks shy of my 19th birthday. Started demonstrating in 1966. Not healthy enough to march today - wish I could.
Mine was Nov, 14 1969.
Damn, I'm feeling old. Just turned 75 this year and I feel like I've been alive for a millennium. Been an activist for almost 50 years.
Was that 1969?
Yes it was were you there?
No I was at the demonstration in San Francisco. It was the first time the middle-aged showed up, so our group, chanting, "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, NLF is going to win!" was frowned on. I figured that if regular Americans were protesting, I didn't have to show up any more. I'd been demonstrating for over 4 years, and I didn't think I had to any more. I did go to an anti Cambodia demonstration in April 1970, I think, and that was my last one.
Yep, the Counter-Inaugural.