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stlsaxman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 06:39 PM
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Remember the Black Arm Bands of the VietNam War Moratorium?
Edited on Thu Aug-18-05 06:43 PM by stlsaxman
I do. As a young adult, i'd see people, mostly students wearing them. I wore one of my own making as i was a few months away from the draft possibly taking me there...

any one here remember them? who started that campaign and could something like that be started again?

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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 06:41 PM
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1. Not a bad idea... n/t
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 06:44 PM
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2. I got suspended from school
(3 days) for wearing one that my MOTHER made for me. She made them for quite a few of my friends but I got tossed because it was MY MOTHER who made them. She is still the coolest.
This was in Bay City, Texas on the first Moratorium Day.
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stlsaxman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 06:49 PM
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3. Way cool mom you had!
That's right- i remember there WERE moratorium days, it was at the hight of the protests, no?

I'm just getting all reminiscent about the past n' shit... :hippie:
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 06:54 PM
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6. That's great!
I was in the eigth grade on the first Moratorium day. I skipped school to be in a peace march. I left home in the morning with my books so my mother would think I was going to school. The next day, my picture appeared on the front page of our newspaper with the title "Youngest Protestor"! Strangely enough, I didn't get in alot of trouble.
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stlsaxman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 07:20 PM
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7. and you made the paper?!?!?
Edited on Thu Aug-18-05 07:21 PM by stlsaxman
we walked to school every day across St. Louis University campus and there were all sorts of demonstrations going on all the time outside the ROTC building n' shit...

Black Panthers and C.O.R.E members and Yippies and SDS.... it was COOL!
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Libby2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 06:51 PM
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4. I think that's a great idea.
We need a theme.
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stlsaxman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 07:23 PM
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8. How 'bout- END THE WAR!
obvious enough? lol
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Libby2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 07:24 PM
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9. LOL.....yep. n/t
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evilqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 06:52 PM
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5. This page will tell you about the Moratorium
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stlsaxman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 07:26 PM
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10. Thanks redqueen
mighty sobering stuff!
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:08 PM
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11. whew... What a flashback
I had forgotten the language we spoke. Turbulent times indeed. We have a ways to go, numbers wise.
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