Aug. 19, 2009: U.S. Soldier from 10th Mountain Division covering one of the wounded as a helicopter lands to evacuate the injured after their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan’s Wardak Province. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Hippie Wigs On Bald Heads
By Dennis Serdel, Vietnam 1967-68 (one tour) Light Infantry, Americal Div. 11th Brigade, purple heart, Veterans For Peace 50 Michigan, Vietnam Veterans Against The War, United Auto Workers GM Retiree, in Perry, Michigan
From: Dennis Serdel
To: GI Special
Sent: August 22, 2009
Subject: Hippie Wigs On Bald Heads
Where did the Peace Movement go
the ones who flooded Washington DC
filled the streets of San Francisco
with actions all over the USA
Are you now waiting for Obama
to end the Wars or watching
the enhanced DVD with extra footage
of the LSD drug big party at Woodstock
while the Soldiers were stranded
in the jungle as Country Joe sings
his song and makes a career
that lasts for a lifetime
Today Joan Baez says she won’t sing
We Shall Overcome anymore
because it’s canned labeled and
is meaningless now
and she’s a millionaire
Why is the Peace Movement silent
have you given up the good fight
or do you still think Obama
will end both of the Wars “responsibly”
Don’t you know Peace Movement
you are Not doing your job
the American Government War Lords
have beaten you down like putting a
penny on a railroad track
like damming a river into a small creek
you are Not busting any dams
opening any fences for
the young protesters to walk through
There was No difference
between LBJ and Nixon
and there is No difference
between Bush W and Obama
He talks to the VFW Veterans For War
with John Birchers with guns
standing outside in Arizona
We need three hundred Woodstock
thousands young people now
as Obama talks all of the time
about winning the Afghanistan War
while leaving Soldiers in Iraq
in permanent bases
Where are you ANSWER or
United For Peace and Justice
or any of the others
Did you think you could
Vote away the Wars and
sit back now in your easy chairs
while the Soldiers are stranded
overseas getting wounded dying
because Peace Movement Organizers
are lazy & have blood on their hands
Why don’t you do your job
because the War Organizers
are transforming our Country
into a War Culture and are winning
by doing their jobs
like they are supposed to do
While the peace people majority
are waiting for Leadership
to fight back and fill a
Woodstock size void and more
against the Wars