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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (22983)8/6/2004 2:52:20 AM
From: TradeliteRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
<<I am an American living in Canada. I am a dual citizen. I moved here in the '70s and haven't looked back. I've been here 35 years and certainly am qualified to speak as a Canadian and a representative one at that although I do live on the Left Coast.

I grew up in 90212 and most of my friends are people you see nightly on TV. I spent my youth organizing anti-war demonstrations in the '60s >>>
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That means you're about the same age I am. That also means you and I wouldn't have gotten along, philosophically, while we were college together.

I remember one night, coming back to the apartment I shared with 3 roommates at a Midwestern state university, after working at a local establishment that evening to earn some extra spending money, and getting ready to buckle down to some homework. yet being angrily greeted by irate housemates for going to work and not participating in that day's rather violent protest against our university chancellor. The protest stemmed from his "failure to take a stand" against the shootings at Kent State University.

We had many campus protests back then, over one thing or another. About 50 percent of the students were into protests (and many of them were on drugs, too). The remainder were into fraternity/sorority parties. Me, well, I sorta liked the parties and studied and worked the rest of the time.

Doesn't mean I thought the Vietnam War was a good thing or that the U.S. should be there...just means I thought doing something productive was important, and I didn't have the luxury of indulging in protests against something I had no control over.

If you had fun organizing those protests, good for you. Peace, brother....by the way, any chance you went to Canada to escape the draft?
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