Hey y'all, there is no dichotomy between being against a war and having concerns or compassion for service people -
The person who wrote the last line of Woodstock was always one of us and yet Joni being Joni never wanted to be associated with any movement - she's a feminist and yet deplores being called one - she is out there doing her own thing. Her associations with CSNY who sang Wooden Ships, Chicago, Ohio, and Joni's own Fiddle and the Drum put Joni always in the loosely defined group of people called peace people back then, her singing Get Together at Celebration of Bug Sur - that was a "political: song back then, not a campfire folk song as it is now - but Joni was never a part of any organized anything, could never picture her walking down 5th Avenue with a picket sign (that would be Marvin Gaye territory...) but she was one of us and I suspect she still is. That she played for service people back then or would now is way cool because like her dad, ,like my dad, like my friends in the 60s and 70s, Lori and our other vets, like my son now, people in service are people doing a job and you have to love them, they aren't the people making the decisions to wage war, they are regular folks with the extra dimension that they risk all - in fact service people are among the ones we are trying to keep from getting killed - no dichotomy between being against a war and loving service people - just my thoughts with Joni content Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 2/21/2003 2:46:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >writes: > > > >>This is where she met Killer Kyle from The Beat of >>Black Wings. >> >> > >And also the soldier who sends her medals in "Cactus Tree". > >It seems to me that she chronicles war as it affects people > > >>personally which is part of the beauty of her writing. >> >> > >Very astute observation, Ken...I think that the fact that her Dad was in the >service plays into that a bit too - she has a certain amount of compassion & >understanding for the enlisted man. > >Great post...I can easily hear her saying the line you gave her.
