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SPRING 2023 EDITION
Spring 2023 Editorial: Here We Go Again
So where were you in August of 1964? Okay. Stop right there. In the spirit of my all-time hero, Dr. Howard Zinn, the great Marxist historian who exhorted all who attempt to recall the past to ‘fess’ up to their own ideological presuppositions, I’ll tell you where I was. I was entering college in Cleveland, Ohio. So what? Well, for one thing I could have cared less where the Gulf of Tonkin was or what our Navy was doing there in the first place. To say that I was “apolitical” does not do justice to my self-absorbed life of privilege. Okay. That was then. Now flash forward to October 1968, to a boarding house just off the campus of Ohio State University. Imagine this writer coming back from class (I was in an MBA program) and opening a letter from the government informing me that I was to appear in Buffalo, New York, on January 9, 1969, for induction into the United States military. Me? Why? What for? My “informed ignorance” of my government’s militaristic machinations was about ready to come home to roost.
–Doug Rawlings
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