When you read someone's post, up at the top on the right, above the text are three icons. The one on the far left is to look up someone's profile, the one on the far right looks like a page of paper with a red arrow attached to it. This is the "reply with quote" icon to the post you're reading. I don't remember what the one in the middle does *grin*. If you put your cursor over each icon a message should pop up below your cursor telling you what the icon is for.
For me, I think Vietnam made such a horrendous impact on my life at a very early age, that I tend to hear all protest songs -probably until the late 80's when we had other wars to protest - filtered through those memories. I have always heard "Sit Down Young Stranger" through that filter, so I've always thought of it as linked with the Vietnam era, though if it was written in 1964 I suppose that's not possible.
It has always been to me, not a protest against a specific war, but a protest against the mentality of war that sends young innocent men off to fight something or someone they don't neccesarily have enough maturity or education to know as the enemy. They are told "Here is the enemy, he is evil" and they go. Those who send them out to die, unless they've been there themselves, can't always understand the impact it makes on the young men and women who survive.
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Oh, by the way, how would I grab a quote from someone else's post to put in a reply post of mine??? I see it done all the time here, but don't know how to do it myself. I don't know if I explained that very well!!
[This message has been edited by Oma (edited November 18, 2002).]
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
--R.W. Emerson
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