<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Randy -</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I am, like, soooooo with you.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I am a boomer myself, having been . . . </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">- Born in 1951 in Van Nuys (San Fernando Valley), California.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">- An active member of VIVA (Voices in Vital America) during the late 60s, participating in several rallies and protests from the Synanon in Santa Monica to MacArthur Park to the Topanga Canyon.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">- On active duty (Army) from June 6, 1969 to July 15, 1989</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">- Active in protests after my Army retirement, as reported in the September 17, 1991 edition of the Spokesman Review.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/SR_091791.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/SR_091791.jpg</a><br><br><div>I can't. You can't. We can.</div><div><br></div><div>Let's make it happen!</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div><div><br>On Sep 4, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Randy <<a href="mailto:the.silvertipped.one@gmail.com">the.silvertipped.one@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2456" style="margin:1.2pt 0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2457"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2458" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">I've lurked here for 20 years without posting, but it's time to speak out The historian’s curse is bedeviling me. I see so many parallels between the beginning of World War I and the situation with North Korea that it feels to me like the war has already started. I see the horror and tragedy of it clearly, and I see no one in power on this whole earth who can and will step up and be a voice of reason. And I know that Americans have no concept of the devastation and destruction such a war will bring.</span></b><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2459" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2460"></span></span></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2461" style="margin:1.2pt 0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2462"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2463" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2464"><br id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2465"></span></b><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2466" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2467"></span></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2468" style="margin:1.2pt 0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2469"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2470"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2471" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">My wife that I can't do anything about this, so I need to control my anxiety and not worry about it. But that’s a stoic New Englander talking. I can't do that. But I can </span></b></span><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2472" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2473"></span></span></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2474" style="margin:1.2pt 0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2475"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2476"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2477" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">do something, however small. I can use my words and experience to be a voice of reason. Maybe enough others will. Maybe I'll be one of a great number of people who can and will do so. Maybe it's like Alice's Restaurant.</span></b></span><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2478" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2479"></span></span></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2480" style="margin:1.2pt 0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2481"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2482" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2483" style="margin:1.2pt 0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2484"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2485" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(71,71,71)">“And can you imagine fifty people a day? I said FIFTY people a day . . . </span><br id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2486"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2487">Walkin' in, singin' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin' out? Friends, </span><br id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2488"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2489">They may think it's a MOVEMENT, and that's what it is: THE ALICE'S </span><br id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2490"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2491">RESTAURANT ANTI-MASSACREE MOVEMENT! . . . and all you gotta do to join is to </span>sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.”</b><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2492"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2493" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2494"><br id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2495"></span></b><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2496"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2497" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2498"></span></b></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2499" style="margin:1.2pt 0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2500"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2501" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The guitar of 2017 social media. It's us boomers who have to sing. It’s us flower children and aging hippies who have to step up and find our voice as mature, aging individuals who learned something in the sixties, even if we've lived our lives without doing much of anything with that knowledge up to this point. Maybe the time has come to use that knowledge and experience. Maybe it’s up to us to speak truth to power; to be the Volunteers of America; to manifest the peace and love we talked about 50 years ago and change the world. And if you're not a boomer, you can still sing. You have to. We all have to. </span></b></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2504" style="margin:1.2pt 0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2505" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2506" style="margin:0.1em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2507"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2508" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">We have to try. We can’t say or pray someone else will. Graham Nash said it all those years ago:</span></b><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2509" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2510"></span></span></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2511" style="margin:0.1em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2512"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2513" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">“We can change the world rearrange the world<br id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2514">It's dying - to get better.”<span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2515"></span></span></b></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2516" style="margin:0.1em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2517"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2518" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Let’s speak up and stop this madness. If not us, who will? And if we don’t speak up, who will console the survivors? Who will explain how the world went over the brink? And the explanation won’t be worth a damn, anyway.<span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2519"></span></span></b></p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2332" dir="ltr" style="margin:0.1em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2520"><span id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_1_1504562374134_2521" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Let's start singing, people. Pass it on. Peace. </span></b></p></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">"Listen to the deep voice of your soul. Do not be distracted by the voice of your mind." - Caitlin Matthews</div>
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