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myccrider

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16. My first husband was behind that fence.

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2020, 03:09 AM

Aug 2020

When he got off the plane that brought him back from Vietnam in early ‘71 the fourth and fifth things he did (after get drunk, get laid & visit his parents) were to join VVAW and start protesting. IIRC the May Day protest was his second one.

We weren’t even dating at that point.

RIP Tom.

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