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csi_sanders1129“It was to be secret. And to show you how secret it [The Pentagon Papers] was supposed to be, McNamara says, and I love this, ‘We need to make it the new Manhattan Project’. Now, what’s the importance of the Manhattan Project? That was the Atomic Bomb, but what was the thing that kept it so secret? Not everybody knew what was going on. If you had the Clickers for the Razzafrazzas and the hojimebobbers, you were in Tennessee. If you had the Whatchamacallits to the Thingamajigs for the Whirrrrrs, you were in Chicago. And so the Razzafrazzers and the Whirrrrrs weren’t together. And Razzafrazzers knew nothing of Whirrrrrs, and Whirrrrrs knew nothing of Razzafrazzers. And so that is how the Pentagon Papers, as we will call them, comes about. One guy looks at this, another guy goes and looks at that, and another rguy goes and looks at that over there.”
“They were people committed to a cause. The other day in Jess’ and Roger’s class, Anthro, we were talking about something totally different about Vietnam (and I’m glad that this pissed him off as much as it did me) but it of course, rolls right into this. To where, someone was saying like ‘Well, the Viet Cong, they’re terrorists, they were a terrorist deal and that they were evil and bad and that they put their families in hardship.’ Yeah, what about those guys in 1776, 1777, 1778, who left their families out in the wilds of Western Maryland to be ravaged by Indians, you know, kind of deal. ‘Well, that’s different cause that brings us America and freedom! They’re evil communists!’”
“In Vietnam, we had more. My granddad was in World War II, and I did an oral history of his experiences, and I can still remember him saying that he remembers having that first beer, after 6 months of service. He said, ‘I can still remember the taste of that beer’ because you just couldn’t get stuff. Whereas in Vietnam, as my buddy Craig will say, he was part of AirCav, ‘We need ice! Somebody go take a Huey!’ And they would actually take a chopper to go and get ice someplace. They had it all! Legal, illegal, right? A lot of times you’ll hear ‘Oh, well it was just those lazy ones that were on drugs.’ No! It was right there! Look at the part of the world you’re in. What comes outta that part of the world? ALL OF IT! You know, you can grow all of it right there. And so you have this whole deal of, you know, we went in with more. We went in with a hammer, but when a hammer’s all you got in your toolbox, then pretty soon everything kinda starts lookin’ like a nail. It’s hard to hammer in screws, isn’t it? Hard to hammer in lightbulbs. And that’s what transpires. Ellsberg says – Remember Ellsberg? This is a lecture about Ellsberg…” <- You will only get that one if you’ve sat through ‘Alice’s Restaurant. ‘Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice.’
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And on another note, the paper I had to write for Music class - I did it on Maori Culture - I will not be getting back. Because apparently, it was so awesome that he's keeping it as an example. Cool.
“They were people committed to a cause. The other day in Jess’ and Roger’s class, Anthro, we were talking about something totally different about Vietnam (and I’m glad that this pissed him off as much as it did me) but it of course, rolls right into this. To where, someone was saying like ‘Well, the Viet Cong, they’re terrorists, they were a terrorist deal and that they were evil and bad and that they put their families in hardship.’ Yeah, what about those guys in 1776, 1777, 1778, who left their families out in the wilds of Western Maryland to be ravaged by Indians, you know, kind of deal. ‘Well, that’s different cause that brings us America and freedom! They’re evil communists!’”
“In Vietnam, we had more. My granddad was in World War II, and I did an oral history of his experiences, and I can still remember him saying that he remembers having that first beer, after 6 months of service. He said, ‘I can still remember the taste of that beer’ because you just couldn’t get stuff. Whereas in Vietnam, as my buddy Craig will say, he was part of AirCav, ‘We need ice! Somebody go take a Huey!’ And they would actually take a chopper to go and get ice someplace. They had it all! Legal, illegal, right? A lot of times you’ll hear ‘Oh, well it was just those lazy ones that were on drugs.’ No! It was right there! Look at the part of the world you’re in. What comes outta that part of the world? ALL OF IT! You know, you can grow all of it right there. And so you have this whole deal of, you know, we went in with more. We went in with a hammer, but when a hammer’s all you got in your toolbox, then pretty soon everything kinda starts lookin’ like a nail. It’s hard to hammer in screws, isn’t it? Hard to hammer in lightbulbs. And that’s what transpires. Ellsberg says – Remember Ellsberg? This is a lecture about Ellsberg…” <- You will only get that one if you’ve sat through ‘Alice’s Restaurant. ‘Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice.’
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And on another note, the paper I had to write for Music class - I did it on Maori Culture - I will not be getting back. Because apparently, it was so awesome that he's keeping it as an example. Cool.
