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hifiguy

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6. I was going on 14 when that happened.

Reply to AnotherDreamWeaver (Original post)

Fri May 4, 2012, 11:14 AM

May 2012

I was already against the war - that I got from RFK when I was a mere lad - but Kent State scared the living hell out of me. My dad told me he'd help me get to Canada if the war was still going on when I hit draft age and that calmed me down.

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