Just as it seemed at last to be on its way out Zionism has rendered meaningless the deaths of 6000000 Jews this is perhaps the most unforgivably anti semitism of all. The man who wrote that. Is an independent scholar his critique of capitalism and science escape from one topia is the title of that was published by if books i f f books special relativity in a universe of flowing time. That's another book apparently did he write that he has been a long time occasional contributor to the Ender's Valley Advertiser he can be written here's his email address if you'd like to converse with him on this subject or any subject d a c e mucho male and you see h.-o. M.-e. I l. Dot com mucho male It's like I'm the breakfast cereal or something like it Monteux me all that's what I was male model male. Any any and. And here's the article about World War One and the end of World War One and how one this Sunday is 100 years after the 1st Armistice Day And so it's Armistice Day. Again. What I remember about this is that it's it's hugely. And I think I want to. Yeah Ok I do want to read and hold on a 2nd I don't to put on some music right now but really been playing too much music and recorded material which is take a sip of this. And clear my throat. I'm describing what I'm doing I'm looking at these pieces of paper and I'm consciously or consciously making them make right angles with each other and somehow getting ready to read this article by Adam Hochschild h o c h s c h d how sheilds in The New Yorker. Whose website is New Yorker dot com 100 years after the armistice Adam Hochschild wrote for millions of soldiers the 1st World War meant unimaginable horror artillery shells that could pulverize a human body into a 1000 fragments immense underground mine explosions that could do the same to hundreds of bodies attacks by poison gas tanks flame throwers shortly after 8 pm on Nov 7th 1918 however French troops near the town of luck apparel start something different from the north 3 large automobiles with the Black Eagle of Imperial Germany on their sides approach the front lines with their headlights on 2 German soldiers were perched on the running boards of the lead car one waving a white flag the other with an unusually long silver bugle blowing the call for a cease fire a single high tone repeated in rapid succession 4 times than 4 times again with the last note lingering. By prior agreement the 3 German cars slowly made their way across the garden cratered no man's land between the opposing armies when they reached the French lines they halted the German bugler was replaced by a French when his bugle is in a Paris museum today and the German peace envoys continued their journey and like a pow flashes lit up the night as the envoys were photographed by waiting press a newsreel cameramen then transferred to French cars their route took them past houses factories barns and churches reduced to charred rubble fruit trees cut down wells poisoned by retreating German troops it appeared to me that the drive was intentionally prolonged in order to carry us across devastated provinces and to prepare us for the hardest conditions which the feelings of hatred and revenge might demand one of the German passengers later wrote the envoys next boarded a railway carriage that it once belonged to Napoleon the 3rd who was forced to surrender most of else ace and part of Lorraine to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War Finally the train pulled into a clearing in the forest of company in near another train occupied by an allied delegation headed by Marshall Ferdinand fuck the Allied Commander in Chief a diminutive Frenchman with an immense shaggy moustache the 2 groups met in Fox train in what was formerly a dining car of a luxury sleeper service the German delegation was headed by a civilian cabinet minister but the high command was desperate to avoid blame for a humiliating end of the war and the military representatives were relatively junior a major general and Navy captain. The German army had asked for peace talks because it knew that it was fast losing the war Germany had already seen the surrender of its 2 major allies Ottoman Turkey and the. Sorry Austria-Hungary an empire which was rapidly fragmenting as one ethnic group after another declared its independence the most powerful German commander General Eric Luton Dorf had had a nervous breakdown raging at his snatch drinking heavily and suffering panic attacks hastily summoned psychologist advised flowers in his office and the singing of folk songs when he woke in the morning when I had that that would work he had resigned in late October and fled the country wearing a false beard and blue spectacles in rear areas tens of thousands of German troops were deserted on the western front the Allies had been gaining ground since mid-summer and mutinous crews in the German Navy ordered to sea for a suicidal last ditch for a against the British seized control of their ships ran up the red flag arrested their officers and made common cause with rebellious workers and soldiers ashore. The Allied Powers yielded to the French on whose soiled so much of the bloodiest fighting had taken place the role of dictating peace terms to the Germans the demands that Marshal Foch laid down were even harsher than the pessimistic German delegates that feared German troops were to swiftly evacuate territory they occupied in France and Belgium Alsatian Loraine were to be returned to France and the left bank of the Rhine Germany's industrial heartland would be occupied by allied troops at German expense fock further demanded that the Germans turn over to the allies not merely large numbers of artillery pieces machine guns aircraft submarine surface warships but also 5000 trucks 5000 railway locomotives and 150000 freight cars reparations would be determined and imposed later the German representatives pleaded for an immediate cease fire while the 2 sides discussed these terms Falk refused Instead he ordered all Allied commanders to step up attacks it is urgent to hasten and intensify our efforts he sat in the 5 weeks since the Germans 1st requested peace negotiations half a 1000000 casualties had been added to the war's toil we're told rather the wars told as the delegates talked Germany continued to collapse from within inspired by the Russian Revolution workers and soldiers were forming Soviets or councils of area proclaimed itself a socialist republic and Soviet took over in Colonia with Berlin in ferment Keyser Vilhelm that 2nd had gone to Western Front military headquarters in the Belgian resort town of spa which is where the word spa comes from but even there he found us soldiers Soviet troops who refused to salute their officers as news came that the red flag had been raised over his own palace in Berlin he fled across the border to a neutral Holland. It was no longer clear what sort of government the German delegates in the railway carriage were representing But the Allies chief concern was that the German army accept Fox terms for peace combat continued as a courier was sent back to the front lines to carry the text of Allied demands to spawn again with a white flag bugle calls years later the French bugle who accompanied him described the thrill to a veterans magazine quote for the 1st time in my life I am writing in a luxury car at last the high command in Spawn radio to its approval and early on the morning of November 11918 the delegates signed the agreement known as the armistice there were no handshakes the armistice took effect at 11 am at that moment the Times correspondent Edward or Edwin l. James wrote from the front 4 years killing and massacre stopped as if God had swept his omnipotent finger across the scene of world carnage and cried enough. F. Larry of new books marks the 100th anniversary of that moment Paul Kendall's voices from the past armistice 1918 is a useful and capacious collection of material about the war's last weeks it consists in large part of eggs or it's generally a paragraph or more from memoirs and other documents including a few quoted above the voices we hear are German British French and American and they encompass the famous the unknown and those who became famous later here for instance is the young Captain Harry Truman writing to his fiance Bess Wallace after he saw a downed and wounded German aviator robbed of his boots by an American officer quote I heard a Frenchman remark that Germany was fighting for territory England for the sea France for patriotism and Americans for souvenirs. Cricut but since peace at last a portrait of Armistice Day 11 November and 1918 is exactly what its title says and focus almost entirely on Britain after a while though it becomes wearisome to learn who was standing where when they heard the great news and what was playing in London theatres and cinemas that evening or to hear how the day was later represented in fiction film poetry paintings or in accounts that may be suspect total strangers copulated in doorways and on the pavements the historian a j.p. Taylor declared they were wrister doing the triumph of life over death and quote but cut birds and points out Taylor was in no position to know at the time he was a boy at home in bed with the flu it's such things happen difficult to say cut bits and allows did Big been really wring out at last at 11 am after more than 4 years of silence or did its keepers only manage to get the chimes working several hours later recollections differ the book is a collage of such tidbits There are however hints that the ecstatic celebrations were eventually followed by something far more somber a British baby who was born at exactly 11 am on the Great Day was christened Pax at the age of 21 he would be killed in the next war. Most of the other new books are similarly unsatisfying because they don't address the consequences of the armistice 1918 winning the war losing the war is a compendium of traditional military history articles edited by Matteis Schroen who worked at the British Army's military academy and later as its at its Research Center the last battle endgame on the Western Front in 1800 by Peter Hart covers the same ground as narrative following the current orthodoxy of too many British military historians and unreservedly praising the quote many strengths and ultimate triumph of Field-Marshal surge Douglas Haig Britain's western front commander Haig it should be Remender remembered was the man who had spent who had sent tens of thousands of men to their death in the fruitless battles of the Somme and passion to ail and who lacking good intelligence about German battle casualties assumed that they must be roughly equal to his own and therefore be rated British generals whose divisions did not suffer high numbers of killed and wounded several additional books celebrate the role of American troops in 1900 notably Ellen Axelrod's how America won World War One the us military victory in the Great War the causes the course and the consequences become we really say that the war was won. If ever there was a conflict that both sides lost this was it for one thing it didn't have to happen there were rivalries among Europe's major powers but in June 1014 they were getting along and amicably not openly claimed part of another's territory Germany was Britain's largest trading partner the royal families of Britain Germany and Russia were closely related by blood and King George the 5th and his cousins Kaiser Vilhelm the 2nd in Star Nicholas the 2nd it all recently been together for the wedding of Il Helms daughter in Berlin and yet by early August of that year after the epic chain of blunders accusations and ultimatums that followed the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Syria if oh the entire continent was in flames. The war took a staggering toll more than $9000000.00 men killed in combat and another $21000000.00 wounded many of them left without arms legs noses genitals millions of civilians also died and the long range consequences were still in Germany the conflict left simmering bitterness that Hitler brilliantly manipulated it is impossible to imagine the 2nd World War happening without the toxic legacy of the 1st. Traditionally the Treaty of Versailles signed in June of 1919 has been blamed for the war's disastrous aftereffects schoolbooks tell us that Germany was humiliated forced to give up territory pay huge reparations and at mit guilt for starting the war Hitler did indeed thunder a great deal about Versailles that 2 years after the treaty was signed the amount of reparations was significant a bit quietly reduced the territory that Germany lost contained only about 10 percent of its people many of whom were not ethnic Germans despite its flaws the treaty was far less harsh than many imposed on other nations that had been defeated in war the problem was something else when the war came to an end at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 few Germans considered themselves defeated the resentment that led to a new cataclysm 2 decades later was really forged by the armistice to begin with the Armistice was not an armistice the Allies in effect demanded and received a surrender yet German civilians had no idea of their vaunted military was starting to crumble their ignorance was a fateful result of unrelenting propaganda This was the 1st war in which both sides invested huge resources and whipping up patriotic fervor with posters films pamphlets postcards plays children's books and more of the German military controlled press censorship keeping all word of mass desertions for instance out of the papers as the tide turned against Germany in the 2nd half of 1918 the country's propaganda for home consumption fully parted ways with reality remaining relentlessly triumphal to the last the apparent German retreat a mere temporary setback even a few weeks before the armistice the country's newspapers were still running stories about an imminent final victory. The illusion was aided by the fact that almost all of the combat had been to the very end on foreign soil the only major fighting inside Germany and the war's opening weeks had ended in a spectacular rout of star Nicholas the seconds inept invading troops with more in the peace of breast latam in early 1918 Russia had yielded to victorious German and Austrian Hungary and troops more than a 1000000 square miles of fertile land largely in what today is Ukraine Poland Bellerose and the Baltic states who ever heard of a country surrendering under such conditions and then in the spring of 1918 a vast German offensive had been desolate successful troops broke the long deadlock of trench warfare and advanced far into France some 100000 Allied soldiers were captured church bells rang and Berlin German schoolchildren received a national holiday and exuberant Kaiser presented his top commander Field Marshal Paul found Hinton Berg what the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross with golden rays the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross with golden rays a medal last awarded to a general who had defeated Napoleon so on May 27th the Germans moved forward 13 miles the largest gain ever in a single day on the Western Front Pira seemed within reach true the advance eventually stalled and on August the 1st the ever optimistic Kaiser had reassured his people that quote The worst is behind us finally as soon as the armistice took effect most German troops marched home in good order regimental flags flying proudly what looting they did on the way was in occupied France and Belgium not in Germany itself. As they paraded through German cities they were welcomed by crowds throwing flowers Friedrich hébert the socialist Chancellor took office 2 days before the armistice greeted soldiers at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate as having returned unconquered from the field of battle as far as most Germans could see this was true small wonder that Germans were outraged to learn the armistice terms and to see British French and American occupation troops March into the Rhineland if the army was quote on conquered who was responsible for these humiliations who had betrayed the 1800000 German soldiers killed in the war powerful right wingers had prepared the ground for the legend of the dock dos or stab in the back even as the war was still raging we shall win the war when the home front stops attacking us from behind Colonel Max about where an influential military strategist declared in 1018 others made spurious charges that Germany's Jews were shirking military service and secured a special census of Jews in the armed forces pen German League called for a ruthless struggle against Jews aiding right wing efforts was the fact that it was the new socialist Chancellor hébert who would now be blamed for the harsh terms of the armistice and so Hitler had an easy time claiming that the army had been robbed of victory by the sinister machinations of socialists pacifists and Jews the hapless German delegates who had had no choice but to sign the armistice and Fox railway carriage were branded the November traitors the delegations chief Mathias ets Berger was assassinated in 102152 members of a right wing death squad. Another provision of the armistice German bitterness although the country's civilians had been spared heavy aerial bombardment they weren't spared hunger after the Royal Navy threw a tight blockade around the Central Powers in 1914 German civilians waited in line all night in the hope of becoming scarce meat butter or bread prices soared food riots erupted and when bad weather damaged the potato crop in the late 1916 Germany and Austria Hungary suffered through what became known as the turnip winter a foreign visitor happened to be in Berlin when day when a horse fell dead on the street and was startled to see dozens of women rushed at the corpse cutting and tearing off pieces of bloody meat to take home but $118.00 daily consumption of calories in Germany was less than half of what it had been in peacetime starvation and malnutrition claimed an estimated 424000 German limes and Oxford scholar Mary Cox recently came upon dramatic evidence of the toll of the food shortages records from before during and after the War of the height and weight of more than half a 1000000 German school children and adolescents the average German boy or girl in 1918 was more than an inch shorter than the average one in 1914. Germans expected the armistice to relieve this suffering but its terms specified that the airline blockade was to remain in place until Germany signed a final peace treaty many months away I have seen infants in Berlin in Dresden hospitals with the shrunken limbs and swollen stomachs characteristic of famine sufferers the American journalist Oswald Garros and Dillard wrote from Germany in March 1900 and I have seen that the mid-day meal for all patients in one hospital is simply a carrot soup nothing else for all ages and all conditions the week I was in Dresden not one pound of meat was distributed he found that a bitter hatred was rising in Germany that there is now talk of revenge which was not heard before. The German delegates in the railway carriage had protested frantically that their country was starving and in one of the few small concessions they won the allies agreed to contemplate the provisioning of Germany in lieu of lifting the blockade Herbert Hoover the American aid relief czar finally managed to make that happen the United States is not at war with German infants he declared overcoming resistance from the British and the French and deftly cutting bureaucratic corners he steered some 1300000 tons of food to Germany but the 1st shipments did not start until mid March 1001004 months after the armistice and only then were Germans allowed to resume fishing in the North Sea the blockade itself was not lifted until Germany reluctantly signed the Treaty of Versailles at the end of June if the new books scanned the Meline consequences of the armistice they also show little concern about the final spasm of madness that unfolded on the day it was signed for the full story one must turn to the late Joseph person well crafted and quietly angry 11th month 11th day 11th hour Armistice Day 1918 World War One and its violent climax that's the title of the book from 2004 because Fox rejected German requests for a cease fire while the armistice was being negotiated person who makes clear 6750 lives 6750 lives were lost or nearly 15000 men were wounded worst yet. British French and American commanders made certain that the bloodshed continued at full pitch for 6 hours after the armistice had been signed the delegates and Fox railway carriage put their signatures to the document just after 5 am on Nov 11th and the key terms were immediately radioed and telephone to Army commands up and down the front on both sides nonetheless allied soldiers scheduled to attack that morning did so until the very last minute. Since the Army's tabulated their casualties to to sticks by the day and not by the hour we know only the total toll for November 11th $2738.00 men from both sides were killed and $8206.00 were left winded or missing but since it was still dark at 5 am and attacks almost always took place in daylight the vast majority of these casualties clearly happened after the armistice had been signed when commanders news that the firing was to stop for good at 11 am the day's toll was greater than both sides would suffer in Normandy on D.-Day in 1904 and it was incurred to gain ground that allied generals knew the Germans would be vacating days or even hours later in some cases men wanted to fight the specially Americans who had been worn down by 4 years of combat private Henry good ther of Baltimore became the last American to be killed in the war at 11 59 am when he charged a German machine gun crew with his bayonet fixed in broken English the Germans shouted at him to go back the war was about to stop when he didn't they shot him Lieutenant General Robert Bullard the commander of the u.s. 2nd army was openly disappointed to see the fighting and the November 11th he wrote about how he went quote near the front line to see the last of it to hear the crack of the last guns of the greatest war of all ages I stayed until 11 am when all being over I returned to headquarters thoughtful and feeling lost oh the poor bunny some commanders were eager for glory and promotions others for revenge for the fighting stopped British and Canadian officers were determined to capture the Belgian city of months and its surroundings which British troops at been forced to abandon in 1014. In other cases Allied officers and men feared severe punishment if they disobeyed orders to attack artillery men on both sides were eager to shoot off all of their ammunition to avoid having to load and take away the heavy shells some at least had the decency to aim their guns at an angle where they were unlikely to kill anyone a few allied generals held their troops back when they heard that the armistice had been signed but they were in the minority and so thousands of men were killed or maimed during the last 6 hours of the war for no political or military reason whatever among the many victims were troops of the American 92nd Division part of Bullard 2nd army the us military was rigidly segregated and the men of the 92nd were black all their higher ranking officers however were white often Southerners resentful of being given such commands poor negroes that's in quotes Bullard and Alabaman wrote they are hopelessly inferior after already injuring discrimination and fear at home 60 Black Americans were lynched in 1901. In America and being treated as 2nd class citizens in the Army these troops found themselves after the armistice had been signed advancing into German machine gun fire and mustard gas they were ordered to make their last attack at 11 30 am the 92nd division officially recorded 17 deaths and 302 wounded or missing on November 11th when General declared that the real toll was much higher than that the war ended as senselessly as it had begun. And there's an article in antiwar dot com by major Danny Sears and s j u r as he and. And I'm going to send you to rather than read it to you it's titled not on the agenda America's wars are a non factor in today's mid-term elections this was the day of the election and you're just going to read you the just the beginning of it to see if you want to read the rest of it give you a taste of it mainstream media polls demonstrate that health care and immigration are the top concerns of both Democrat and Republican voters today American military as m is hardly mentioned on the United States military is actively fighting in 7 Muslim majority countries and no one cares as Americans go to the polls today in a ritual pretense of democracy they will vote for one of the 2 major political parties on issues ranging from health care to immigration to the basic personality of President Donald Trump the 3 mainstream networks from quote liberal and quote him as n.b.c. To quote conservative and quote Fox News ever put it on little ounce for the last several months the whole charade is little more than politics as entertainment like some popular sporting event in which the opposing sides wave the flag for the blue team or the Red Team. For weeks now my television and yours has been saturated saturated with political commercials for and against local legislative candidates some are attack ads focused on corruption in the Suppose it left or right wing extremism of the opposing candidate others center on taxes health care and the extensible hordes that's in quotes hordes of immigrants approaching the us in a troublesome caravan but none I repeat none say word one about American foreign policy the nation's ongoing wars or the exploding record defense budget you see in 2018 despite being engrossed in the longest war in u.s. History the citizenry both on Main Street and Wall Street display nothing but apathy on the subject of America's clearly faltering foreign policy and it goes on from there and explains the details and again that's an antiwar dot com a.n.c. I.w.a. Are dot com by major Danny s j u r s e n not on the agenda America's wars are a non factor in today's mid-term elections goes on from there and explains again all the details and I think you'll get a kick out of that. This is in the Onion they line Washington stressing that 50 years has been more than enough time. For the Democratic Republic to repay this. The United States sent Laos a bill Monday for the 80000000 still on detonated bombs left in the country from the Vietnam War We have been patient but we're urging you to please settle the balance by December 1 for the numerous free fall bombs g.b. Use fuel air explosive shells and mines still sitting on the main trail read the statement titled invoice for secret war in Laos 1964 through 973 in part providing a detailed breakdown of $1.00 trillion dollars worth of still active e.r. W.'s left behind in the socialist state for which the us government has not been financially compensated when we supported the Royal Lao Government front with 580000 bombing 580000 bombing missions we expected to be reimbursed for all unexploded ordinance as it's only reasonable or else we wouldn't have paid to continuously bomb your country for 9 years straight in the 1st place frankly the fact that 34000 of your men women and children and set off American cluster munitions since the war ended without the us government receiving so much as a penny of recompense is an acceptable the invoice reportedly ended by insisting that if Laos fails to act soon the United States will also be forced to charge the country for the millions of tons of munitions that effectively exploded during the war well that only makes sense I mean you can't run a business and give away the store Kenya. Overheard in New York dot com is a website that for a while languished and and then a while after that there were just automatically and probably robotically reshuffling stories that people had already sent in and that I remembered reading years ago but the research surged into the forefront of there's something new there every day now and so it's worth going there just to check it out overheard in New York dot com self-explanatory title for a website this was overheard at the one train it says at Houston Street I think that might have been meant to be the l. Train I don't know if any one train I know there's an l. Train but it says once oh let's go with that overheard there a blue collar guy says I stopped given a panhandlers 10 years ago this guy hit me up every day at my stop and one day I gave him a sandwich and some cigarettes I watched him he threw a sandwich away I went over to him and worked him over pretty bad I dumped a trash can took out the sandwich and I took his cigarettes away from him then I knocked him down again took all the money out of his pockets I was really mad when he threw that sandwich away now I never give anything to those guys and this was overheard in the East Village. I exploded in laughter at this one when I read the last line of it I'm not really sure why and I'm going to try not to do that again and erect sick Jewish American Princess on cell phone no money so I stopped dating him and a hobo says whore and the girl says to the hobo excuse me and the hobo says nice ties have another donut. Thingy I did it I didn't explode in laughter at that I'm not sure why that's Is that a thing that people say to fat people have another donut it sounds like something that they they might be saying I would never say a thing like that but now that I've heard it said nice the highs have another donut . And not always right dot com Another website it's worth going to every day very well used stories that illustrate the idea that the customer is not always right stories of funny and stupid customers these are mostly stupid ones and sometimes it doesn't seem fair you know because the person was just tired or miserable but these people are genuinely. Obviously stupid there's no way to misinterpret that this story comes from a movie theater in the us the submitter rights customer says Give me a coffee but can you fill it with ice I don't want to be too hot I said you just want me to put a little ice in it to help down customer says no I want you to fill the cup up completely with ice I don't want it hot I said All right 5 minutes later the customer returns and says hey this coffee you sold me is ice cold I just wanted to be not so hot I said I thought you wanted it cold you had me fill it up with ice customer says I didn't realize filling it with ice would make it cold and this story comes from a candy store in Lafayette Louisiana the customer says were your bags. I said this is the submitter writing I said middle shelf next to the boxes the customer reaches for the top shelf of boxes I said middle shelf next to the boxes customer moved their hand to the middle shelf of boxes I said next to the boxes customers their hand to the bottom shelf of boxes I said middle shelf next to the boxes the customer moves their hand back to the middle shelf of boxes then however is it the opposite direction of the bags I said other direction the customer turns and walks away from the boxes and bags entirely I said let me just grab one for you. Oh also from the archives of the Anderson Valley Advertiser daily hep thing that name seems very familiar to me and I was seeing that name pop up a lot you know in the paper in the Anderson Valley Advertiser and I didn't realize she was vastly prolific she wrote hundreds of articles for the a v.a. Had a vast experience that's foreign to my experience in many ways but she's a great writer and she tells a slam bang story March on Washington is the title of this published in the January 28th 2004 issue of the Enderson Valley Advertiser by Dale a hep Ting who wrote 1963 Aug 1st San Francisco North Beach I met up with a guy named Sky King Sky King he were all black and along Cape with us it's difficult Orian collar His hair was black curling down and resting on his collar His face was coffeehouse pale he had a girlfriend a chubby girl flat faced and freckled she was pregnant with his child he was from the avenues she was from a desk job. One thing I had in common with Sky King was that I was ready for a change North Beach was beginning to look pathetic in the early morning light the same people walking the same streets talking the same bullshit about black art Alister Crowley who do voodoo. Allen Ginsberg was in India burning bodies on the Ganges Philip Whalen could arrive at any time Gary Snyder was holed up in a cave in Japan playing Zen Philip Lamont was on his way to east on bull. Michael McClure had just published the beast all fine and good for them but for me I was going nowhere but up the top of grant to the anxious asp then down to the enigma then to we low gooey noodle house on Pacific and then up again to Ferlinghetti city lights to steal books to sell next door at Discovery going in circles going nowhere why not go to the village and then the March on Washington why not the March on Washington was a part of coffeehouse talk on the beach it would be all of us from all over the country Martin Luther King would March at the head and we would bring the racist bastards to their knees who were so very young and stupid we imagined we could make a difference I suppose we did in a way there is no more overt segregation now it's hidden I wanted to go and Sky King wanted to go we had $5.00 between the 3 of us but we were the children of America and we had our river we figured someone would feed us we were right about that we started at the base of the Broadway on ramp one sunny day we went by hook or by crook across the land we got a ride that went to Oklahoma City we had slept the night in a vineyard in Modesto so we took what we could get Oklahoma City was a wide swing to the south but it was still farther to the east and that's where we met him his name was Billy Watson. We couldn't get a ride to Union $76.00 outside Oklahoma City so we made our way onto the freeway it's against the law to hitchhike on a freeway but we figured it was 4 am so we would take our chances at the top of the on ramp we waited ready to run back down if we saw a cop a big truck flew by us and we waved our thumbs Frantically he hit the brakes and laid rubber bringing that big metal beast to a stop we thought the truck maybe had a flat we waited we made no move he started backing up on the freeway then we knew he was stopping for us and we ran toward the truck I am not one to question luck but I did wonder what would cause a truck driver to back up on a freeway to pick up hitchhikers out of pills Billy Watson was out of pills he was a small wire resort of man he was on his way to Elkhart Indiana he had driven from Oklahoma City to l.a. And back picked up another load for Indiana without any sleep he ran out of pills so that was my job now keep him awake Sky King in his pregnant girlfriend settled into the sleeper and I rode shotgun he had an elfish sort of look about him this Oklahoma boy he was the type who makes a damn good cowboy or a damn good driver lean and mean tough as an old desert coyote it's all about insurance being a cowboy or driving a long hauls not to say I never saw fat truck driver who knew his stuff but damn sure you never saw fat cowboy. Billy wants and talked for hours about his growing up and Okie fights he got into in bars how he brought down some bar bully over at Port Charles Louisiana he had to demonstrate all the punches which made me nervous since he was driving inevitably it came around to the damn niggers like it always does with these guys the usual stuff how the niggers were ruining everything and how they were even going to ruin Washington d.c. Millions of niggers marching who the fuck did they think they were they already got rich off the welfare that decent white men paid out of their hard earned money they got time to March on Washington well Billy Watson can't March in Washington because Billy Watson got a job to do and a pack of kids waiting for his paycheck so their mama could go spend it at bars will he waste his life away and this goddamn truck damn right they got time to March around for their civil rights damn niggers are lazy they got no job you want rights you gotta work for them no nigger wants to do that that's the hard way that's the American Way send them back to Africa they don't like it here I just keep watching the road hoping he will follow my example and I say aha and named that the truth when I want to bond solidly he got suspicious once and said I look like a damn commie Nope I said not me. We made St Louis in the early afternoon it was a hot sweaty day in the dead heart of the Midwest so Lord knows that is some ugly country to my eyes I know there's men that will die for it but I can't say why it's flat no trees just fences and flat fields as far as you can see nothing to break the monotony nothing that is except knowing that old Billy has been up for days and he still driving a damn big truck with a full load of steel framing right behind the cab and God help me if he fucks up because that load of steel is going to come right through that sleeper and Sky King and his little fat Valley Girl and right on through we will be speared and smashed in a hot 2nd so that was keeping me awake traffic picked up big time as we coasted into the heart of the city Oh Billy paid no attention to anybody changed lanes when he took a fancy to it he did not waste his time checking his rearview mirrors he turned on his signal light and more often than not went into the opposite lane from what his signal indicated I watched the cars skittering away like so many cockroaches down there they were so scared they never even gave him the bird he was a mad man in charge he wasn't talking about the niggers anymore he was just tight lipped and focusing on getting through they were slowing him down he was on a roll. The one thing a trucker don't want to do is shift down because once you do that you lose your momentum and with a full load it's going to take forever to get it back up that something people don't understand about trucks you get in front of a truck and dawdle along that means nothing to you because when you're ready you just got it near sailing you see that truck riding your bumper you best get out of the way if he has to gear down because of your sorry ass he's going to be one pissed off motherfucker and he just might pass you an inch over the line and push you into the guardrail I've seen it done if you piss him off enough and he has been doing a fistful of l.a. Turnarounds he might just push you through the guardrail if the opportunity presents itself no witnesses then what happens if you die you don't think what would haunt old Bill you don't think that would haunt old Billy for the rest of his life to you I don't so here's the thing he fell asleep one minute he was demonically focused on not gearing down and the next minute he fell forward onto the steering wheel I climbed on to the console or whatever that is in the middle and grab the wheel as he careened out into the middle lane I kicked his feet off the gas where they were pushing down beat him with my elbows and screamed wake up you stupid jackass racist bastard wake up he woke up he said you ain't got nothing to worry about sweetie every time I fall asleep a giant angel beats its wings on the windshield wakes me up so we got to Elkhart alive Sky King and his sweetie we're well rested Billy Watson opened the door to the cab tried to take a step down and missed it he pitched face down in the dirt and there he stayed no way to wake him up you could have beat him with a club poured hot scalding water on him whatever you wanted Billy Watson delivered his load time and he was on his own time now asleep in the dirt beside his truck it was still running of course because the other problem was if you shut it off it would not start again and he was a wildcatter so he would have to fix that problem him self. Turned out it wasn't so easy to get back to the interstate this was shaker country we saw lots of guys with long hair and beard so we thought we had it made unfortunately their long hair and beards were different they were a closed religious community no one gave us a ride I mean no one we walked all night back to the interstate good things Sky King got some sleep but his bitch was whining early on we got to Manhattan and panhandled for a couple of weeks leaping in doorways and on the benches of a folk bar in the village where they let people sleep after closing time on the 22nd of August we got back on the road to Washington d.c. For the March we never got there all around us were blocked we stuck out our thumbs and the cops swarmed us you got 2 choices they said if you're going to Washington we will put you in jail right now if you want to go west or turn around then you can do that but you are not going to Washington get it we tried there were thousands and thousands of us trying to get there but the cops had shut that city down they even stopped the Greyhound buses poor people would be coming on buses and hitchhiking and none of those people ever got there some say they had road blocks and checked the poles driver's licenses blacks and hippies were turned back I am not sure on that because we never got even close to Washington before we were stopped they say 200000 people were in the March on Washington 200000 people heard Martin Luther King say I have a dream but what if we all had made it how many would there have been we went home to San Francisco we landed in North Beach with 5 bucks just like we left never missed a meal living off the fat of the land making a revolution Viva check a hell of a story hello story. 3 minutes to 3 k n y o p Fort Bragg m.e.c. 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And it turns from San Francisco and for right away we had a lot to discuss like good old Terence had a lot to say about art like one day you spent 30 minutes telling me how Picasso cut his own ear off I tried to tell him it was Bangles who did it but he insisted it was because of because I looked it up to believe it could be to deliver an art major you know some guys just can't handle a knife wound to the got. A little bit. Here. Is what must. Be. Good. Everyone thinks I have a horrible story tonight but I don't share some guys are jerks but not all of them think I've ever been mansplaining till just now to the gym until you get a workout to every woman that you're training. So they're mansplaining your job to. Get out. The door for a new so naturally I listen to the smart little model stuck to it was wrong but I let it go because again I assume to the smart. Well one day and Rihanna I had some really bad cramps lasting for Samantha to have the question. Only did he refuse but he also rolled his eyes at me and said you know that's all bullshit it live in just happier lives and most of the fun hobbies friends wouldn't bother them as. Well after that a completely blacked out number of things it wasn't until later when I was washing the blood off my. Hands I even knew he was dead. Ladies Actually that's not what mansplaining is. I. Feel. The least Lee. Thing I keep thing. In the. Back and I'm feeling. Like an odd. The airplane from crashing. Only Searle's down from the sky. Yes Ok.