"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message
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"Brian" wrote in message
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Heck, from all accounts most of those who set out for Woodstock never
actually
got there due to traffic snarls.

I especially like the ones who claimed they were both at Woodstock and
in Vietnam. They probably saw both movies.

The summer of 1969 was when human beings first set foot on the moon.
That's
what I think of first when that time is mentioned.

I was 11. I remember selling flower seeds door to door to earn a West
Ben fishing pole. And my Dad getting orders to Thailand.

So what has all this do do with code?

My my Brian....how is it so hard for you to figure a person could be a
veteran of VN and be at Kent State also? You really must be a dumb ass.

I was at Kent State visiting my cousin the evening before the shootings.
The national guard had blocked the streets and the kids were running up
and
down the street throwing rocks, etc.

I had my military ID checked by the Guard on my way out of town. The next
day the shootings occured. ( I was in-active reserve status).

I was discharged in 1968. I went back to Thailand as a civilian and
returned stateside in December of 69. My original home is Alliance, Ohio.
Thats about 34 miles South of Kent, Ohio.

You can now wipe the slobber off your chin.

Dan/W4NTI



Good grief, Dan. You're a gorilla thumping your chest... That's a total
turn-off.

Kim W5TIT

"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message thlink.net...

I was at Kent State visiting my cousin the evening before the shootings.
The national guard had blocked the streets and the kids were running up and
down the street throwing rocks, etc.

I was there the day before delivering lunch to my Dad...He was
director of communications for KSUPD at the time. I was at Brown
Junior High when we all got sent home suddenly...I found out about the
shootings when I got home and turned on the scanner.

I later joined the KSU Amateur Radio Club (K8GRA)when I got my
Novice in October of 72...a perk of being the dependent of a campus
employee.

I had a chance to see the damage done by the students to the new
Tower Dormitories on the south side of the campus...It was so new that
some of the rooms still had new plastic on the matresses and it smell
of mothballs...Trashed beyond recognition in some places.

I was discharged in 1968. I went back to Thailand as a civilian and
returned stateside in December of 69. My original home is Alliance, Ohio.
Thats about 34 miles South of Kent, Ohio.

Ravenna...been there? =) (Class of 74)

Score still stands at National Guard 4...KSU Zip.

73

Steve, K4YZ

"Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote in message
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"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message
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I was at Kent State visiting my cousin the evening before the shootings.
The national guard had blocked the streets and the kids were running up
and
down the street throwing rocks, etc.

I was there the day before delivering lunch to my Dad...He was
director of communications for KSUPD at the time. I was at Brown
Junior High when we all got sent home suddenly...I found out about the
shootings when I got home and turned on the scanner.

I later joined the KSU Amateur Radio Club (K8GRA)when I got my
Novice in October of 72...a perk of being the dependent of a campus
employee.

I had a chance to see the damage done by the students to the new
Tower Dormitories on the south side of the campus...It was so new that
some of the rooms still had new plastic on the matresses and it smell
of mothballs...Trashed beyond recognition in some places.

I was discharged in 1968. I went back to Thailand as a civilian and
returned stateside in December of 69. My original home is Alliance,
Ohio.
Thats about 34 miles South of Kent, Ohio.

Ravenna...been there? =) (Class of 74)

Score still stands at National Guard 4...KSU Zip.

73


Sure been to Ravenna. You know this Kent thing was really a bad deal. I
was a vet of the VN bull****, but I really had a lot in common with the
'kids'.

When I left out of the Kent area that evening...I told the guard that this
BS about Nixon invading Cambodia was BS. I was in Cambodia re-supplying US
troops in 67. And in Laos too. He was rather shocked. Oh well. Yes
indeed the US Government lied.

Dan/W4NTI

Steve, K4YZ

"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Dick Carroll;"

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Subject: For those that are against the morse removal
From: "Dick Carroll;"
Date: 1 Sep 2003 07:11:09 GMT



Dan/W4NTI wrote:

"Kim" wrote in message
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"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Kim"

writes:

"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Kim"

writes:


The song is really an anti-conformity ditty, loosely derived
from
Malvina
Reynolds' "Little Boxes" and others of that ilk.

Yet, quite prophetic when looking back now.

How?

Oh, I think many today--even me--are quite involved and disolved
with
keeping ourselves happy with material things. While I am not a
keep
up
with
the Jones' kind of person (i.e., unaffected by "status" symbols),
I do
find
amusement in "things" more than I used to. I used to be happy
just to
watch
ants...

Ah - good explanation! And observation...

Here's another one for ya...

From 1972-1976 I attended a large urban university. The big thing
back
then
was "nonconformity" to the rules of the "establishment",
particularly
in
manners of slang, clothes and haircut.

After a while, though, it became clear that we'd simply traded one
form
of
conformity for another, and that we "nonconformists" pretty much
dressed
alike,
talked alike, and had similar haircuts.

The university gave us more than schooling - we were actually
educated,
often
by experiences that seemed minor at the time.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Absolutely!! I was one "of those" (nonconformists). Actually, I
still
concentrate on being so--it doesn't come naturally any more GRIN.
If
everyone is planting roses, I'll plant petunias. If all women like
diamonds, I like opals (and that is actually the truth).

But you're still planting flowers, and liking jewelry. Same difference.

Anyway, you're right about the more we tried to be different, the
more we
were the same. Uh, but we were the same together

Groovy, baby!

Oh, now ur claiming to be a 'flower child'? Don't think so. Or
perhaps
you came in after things ended, eh? A wannabee flower child? Now
thats a
real probabliity.

Bummer, man! Why such a downer?

Hey, she'e the one who wanted to go to Woodstock back when, but her
mother
wouldn't let her because she was too young. Pity!

Woodstock? Let's see, that was late summer 1969, when Kim was 15 if memory
serves. I don't think a responsible parent would let their 15-year-old go
to
such a "happening".

Heck, from all accounts most of those who set out for Woodstock never
actually
got there due to traffic snarls. Some of the performers had to be
helicoptered
in and out, and some never made it. The whole event was such a mess that
large
outdoor festivals basically disappeared afterwards because nobody with
half a
brain would issue the necessary permits. (Altamont drove the final nail in
that
coffin).

Counterculture? Check this out: The promoters who put on the Woodstock
festival
lost big piles of money on the concert. The whole thing was too big for
them to
control - early on they even lost the ability to collect admission. There
was
even talk of civil suits over huge unpaid expenses BUT....

The promoters had done one smart thing: They owned the rights to almost
all
recordings (film and sound) made at the festival. So they made a
documentary
movie and record album for very little money, and made back all their
losses
and millions more. Good old capitalism...

Remember the song "Woodstock", made famous by Crosby Stills Nash and
Young? It
was actually written by Joni Mitchell (who also performed the first
version).
Buit Mitchell was not at the Woodstock festival at all!

The summer of 1969 was when human beings first set foot on the moon.
That's
what I think of first when that time is mentioned.

73 de Jim, N2EY

In the summer of 69 I was mellowing out in a Klong House in Bangkok
Thailand.

Dan/W4NTI

In article .net, "Dan/W4NTI"
w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com writes:

The summer of 1969 was when human beings first set foot on the moon.
That's what I think of first when that time is mentioned.

73 de Jim, N2EY

In the summer of 69 I was mellowing out in a Klong House in Bangkok
Thailand.

HAW! That's a good one, Dan!

73 de Jim, N2EY

Reason Im asking is that I was there the night before it happened. Just
curious.

Dan/W4NTI


Hey Dan brings back Memories, did you ever hang out at RAYS. Man we had some
Wild times there.

"WA8ULX" wrote in message
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Reason Im asking is that I was there the night before it happened. Just
curious.

Dan/W4NTI


Hey Dan brings back Memories, did you ever hang out at RAYS. Man we had
some
Wild times there.

Don't remember actually. Only went there that one evening. Kent really
wasn't my kind of town.

Dan/W4NTI

"N2EY" wrote:

Which is why I haven't had cable since 1979,
and why the sole TV here spends a lot of
time off. That's the main weapon of the
marketplace.


We had one significant advantage in that area - we lived overseas for many
years without much English-language television available. Because of that,
we've never developed much of an addiction to television. We have two in the
apartment right now (not ours - they came with the place). Neither of those
have been on for more than an hour today, and most of that time was the
weather channel (a show about a hurricane hitting Texas years ago) while I
was putting a new chair together. Right now, the place is blissfully quiet.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/