WOKE UP THIS MORNING to the news of another dead Kennedy! That’s number three now in my lifetime.
IT WAS 1960 and the good Catholic nuns had us all praying for John Kennedy and raising money for his election as the 1st Catholic Prez. I wonder what they woulda thought of Marilyn Monroe? I WOULD BE IN THE MARINES - at the old Camp Matthews rifle range when he was assassinated in Dallas on 22 November 1963. I remember all the drill instructors were telling us this remarkable piece of marksmanship had been performed by a former Marine!!! ASSHOLES!!
IT WAS 1968- I would be lying in the Minneapolis VA Hospital, having just come out of surgery and the news was Kennedy had been assassinated in L.A. Man, have these people got this all fucked up! It Was Dallas! Dipshits! It would be a couple of days before my head cleared up enough to figure it out.
AS A MEMBER of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, we would lobby Congress in 1972 to set up a Discharge Review Board. The DOD was passin’ out administrative discharges to Nam vets who, on their way out of Vietnam, were being questioned on drug use. If they admitted to smoking “pot”, the FUCKS wrote them an Administrative Discharge - WHICH WAS GOOD FOR NOTHING. Sen. Ted Kennedy was a big help in getting this Bill Passed to set up the committee [to aid the Vietnam Veterans Against the War]. His bud, and rising political star at the time, was John Kerry who spoke for us at a joint session of Congress! A few signs were spotted “Free John Kerry’s Maid”.Ol’ Ted would invite us to his Virginia Farm where he threw a buncha Nam Vets a wild party! With his death this morning, I thought of this song Dion covered.
RAT-A TAT TAT
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