The Summer of 69

[geemail]

In 69, I was 18. I went to the Laurel Pop Festival, in Laurel
Maryland, (Led Zepp, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck, Mothers of Invention, and several others), then went to the Atlantic City Pop Festival, (CCR, Janis Joplin, and many others). They advertised Woodstock in the local
Free Press but I couldn't get off work. I remember being glad not going because of the news report. Then the movie came out and saw
what I had missed. Would have loved to been there.

I had a High Draft number that kept from having to enlist.

 

[jonnybgod]

Old Burnouts try to re-live now.

I've already forgot more than you'll ever know!!

 

[facelift]

Yep. I was at the foot of my parent's bed and 5 watching the moon landing and walks. Then, 9-23-01 I found out it was all a lie. Now, even the NASA Classified Film has been edited. Instead of the "director" telling Armstrong to "speak" like a dog, he now says, "talk" like a parrot.

Sorry guys, I don't know how to get you back home anymore. I passed the original around. You can buy it along with other space videos, but "a funny thing happened on the way to the moon" is the one with the smoking gun. The dialog has been edited, the proof is still there though.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

The trip was paid in full...either way

 

[Ihop]

 

[Hank Hemp]

There it is

There it is

draftee Dustoff medics got jerked around a lot...was with the 91st Evac Hospital in Long Binh...too. Those 1st Cav guys are crazy......they were still trying to get over that joke in Korea...(you know?.."the horse they couldn't ride, the line they couldn't cross...and the color speaks for it's self")....

Pinball, I'm going to say this to you in the hope it will help you throughout your remaining days, It's this You are just like me Motherfugger, you think like me and you have the same feelings for those lame assess in the 1st Cav. Fuck them, go out in the morning in their copters and it feed out chow at lunch then picked up at dark in their copters fuck that. That real grunts(small g) sat up ambush and lp's. First cav never dug or lived in a hole in the friggen dirt. Sorry Pinball I'm gooned on hydr- cododne and valuim. and Herb ofcourse.

 

[Hank Hemp]

Paid in full?

Paid in full?

The trip was paid in full...either way

55 dollars a week for a PFC(proud fucking civilan), I forgot room and board. No wait, I refuse to consider a hole in the ground" room", especially If I had to dig the hole. I want my change.

Here is why I'm me. Just had big time back surgery. A first time thing for me OK? I've been without a job the last 14+ months oh well, times are hard all over, right? Today I get a e-mail from a Eng. firm that does my exact kind of land surveying right. 2days after my back surgery, with one of the requirements is to carry 80 pounds, a month ago no problem, now- medics got me restricted to 10 for at least a month. So sorry for the tude.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

no vet should have to hump 80 pounds ...again....(get well soon)

 

[Clackamas Coot]

no vet should have to hump 80 pounds ...again.

The same thing might be said about being stationed Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri or Ft. Polk, Louisiana.

The US Army's ability to site some of their bases in the middle of America's colon is extraordinary to say the least.

CC

 

[Big D]

I had a hot date with a cajan woman named Calmille August '69..Category 5


she almost killed me...so I gave her a ...Category 10

I was almost 3 and I can actually remember things about that storm, you know my dad boarding up and how worried everyone was. We ended up fleeing the scene! It is one of only a few memories I have of being that young, all of them traumatic.

 

[hoosierdaddy]

I thought the sand at Ft Dix was a nice touch...

Pal of mine did 3 tours back to back...thinks Subic Bay is heaven on earth. Bit whacked, my pal. Straight up good people though.

 

[fishheadbob]

The same thing might be said about being stationed Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri or Ft. Polk, Louisiana.

The US Army's ability to site some of their bases in the middle of America's colon is extraordinary to say the least.

CC

true dat. When I was at Ft. Ord in Monterey, Ca. I kept pinching myself wondering how the army ever wound up in such a nice place. They must have felt the same way; they sold it to real estate developers. Good laugh about all the unexploded ordinance still hanging around on various ranges there.

 

[Mr. Greengenes]

I was 13. A street kid hanging around Harvard Square eating Owsley acid and smoking my own 'hogro'. Did we meet?

 

[doc_fg]

Summer '69 in SoCal .. I was 15, Hendrix was God, Mexican weed for the first time (thanks big sis) went to griffith park and saw a free concert of the Jefferson airplane, Hollywood freaks everwhere. Did a half tab of acid for the first time. Went riding with older buddy to top of a hill and when I saw the city lights from the road I thought it was a firework show going on.

 

[IWanaGetHiSoHi]

I was 2 ...

 

[Oldtimer60]

got drafted that year was the suckiest i can remember, ah what was i saying

 

[gr8fulbud]

1969...lets see...Got busted for hash while in college in LA...they told me to join the military or get indicted. Joined the Air Force, stayed stoned and stateside! Whew! Subscribed to the Los Angeles Free Press and Rolling Stone while spending most of my money on stereo equipment and a Columbia Record Club membership. First day of permanent duty at Vandenburg AFB on July 0f 1970 I met a dude in the barracks that had brown mescaline and afghani hash. For sale! We became best buddies right then and there. Had to hide my stash in the woods about a mile away and retrieve it by bicycle at night. I'd get stoned in the woods and look at the stars and listen to the creepy, crawly sounds all around me.
Once I headed back to the barracks on my bike after midnight in a thick coastal California fog and ran into a big ol' buck deer. We both were kind of dazed for a few seconds and my bike light was shining on his face then he ran off. I went back and had another hit!

 

[spliphy]

classic

classic

1969...lets see...Got busted for hash while in college in LA...they told me to join the military or get indicted. Joined the Air Force, stayed stoned and stateside! Whew! Subscribed to the Los Angeles Free Press and Rolling Stone while spending most of my money on stereo equipment and a Columbia Record Club membership. First day of permanent duty at Vandenburg AFB on July 0f 1970 I met a dude in the barracks that had brown mescaline and afghani hash. For sale! We became best buddies right then and there. Had to hide my stash in the woods about a mile away and retrieve it by bicycle at night. I'd get stoned in the woods and look at the stars and listen to the creepy, crawly sounds all around me.
Once I headed back to the barracks on my bike after midnight in a thick coastal California fog and ran into a big ol' buck deer. We both were kind of dazed for a few seconds and my bike light was shining on his face then he ran off. I went back and had another hit!

bestest man...

 

[qdavid]

1969...lets see...Got busted for hash while in college in LA...they told me to join the military or get indicted. Joined the Air Force, stayed stoned and stateside! Whew! Subscribed to the Los Angeles Free Press and Rolling Stone while spending most of my money on stereo equipment and a Columbia Record Club membership. First day of permanent duty at Vandenburg AFB on July 0f 1970 I met a dude in the barracks that had brown mescaline and afghani hash. For sale! We became best buddies right then and there. Had to hide my stash in the woods about a mile away and retrieve it by bicycle at night. I'd get stoned in the woods and look at the stars and listen to the creepy, crawly sounds all around me.
Once I headed back to the barracks on my bike after midnight in a thick coastal California fog and ran into a big ol' buck deer. We both were kind of dazed for a few seconds and my bike light was shining on his face then he ran off. I went back and had another hit!

I was going in 10th grade the summer of '69. That's when I started smoking. Strange world. Assassinations and Nam and on one hand, parties and hippies on the other. I chose the other.

Very cool story. My AF experience was much was much later. Mid 80's. But I went all the way, retired. My buddy at Carswell in TX had got caught where he grew up in Montana with 300 hits of speed in his glove box. Judge told him, "Military or jail". His Mom was court clerk too. So he joined the AF. Then he burned up the career. Cheating and drinking all the way. Retired after 20 years as a drunk, partying E-9.

Another time, a different buddy of mine was giving me a ride back to our place in base housing, at night, in a dense fog on Otis ANG Base on Cape Cod. BTW, no, I ain't gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Anyway, we hit a deer, on base, I don't remember if we were smoking. The hood was buckled on his Japanese Pu truck (Masda), I remember that. The deer was knocked out. So we went and called the cops. When we got back to the spot the deer was gone. Probably had a hell of a headache though.

 

[grasspass]

I was grade school age. A guy in the neighborhood had a Austin Martin with a small tv in the car . High tech for the day . The guy was showing it off. I remember looking in the window of the car watching the news show people walking on the moon for the first time. I also remember the neighbor 18 year old got the jail or military thing. They don't do that anymore.