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[PhuCat to Phu Quoc]

I am in Arcata, California. Going to a wedding today.

I photographed a lot of pseudo-hippies yesterday.

Arcata, in the redwood country, Humboldt County is a
hippy and flower child stronghold.

I can't find my Vietnam vet ball cap with the Vietnam Veterans
Against Kerry button on it. Oh, woe is me, what shall I do?

The hippies and flower children seem to be in a time warp.
They are young.

The hippies and flower children did have their own children,
and the universities have spawned a generation of simpering,
sniveling wannabes, some of them just as stupid and self-centered and anti-American as their parents.

The new hippies do have a dress code, established by their
parents and professors. Long pants covered with another pair of pants cut off at the knees, do-rag on the head, long hair,
generally filthy and unkempt, trying real hard to look like the
hippies and flower children of 1969 (their parents and teachers?).

A lot of the young pseudo hippies carry guitars.
Beats hell out of carrying a bar of soap.

These are probably the children and grandchildren of the long-haired, dope smoking, maggot infested jackasses wearing granny glasses that greeted us upon our return from Vietnam.

Went to Samoa Cookhouse yesterday, great chow and ambience.
It's a lumberjack chow hall in the middle of an old redwood lumbering operation, the Hammond Company, then Louisiana Pacific then Simpson, then sold again. A company town lies
between the cookhouse and the mill. The employees eating
at the cookhouse earned $1.00 a day in 1907, and by 1922
their wages had increased to the point where they could
spend $0.60 a day for three meals at the Samoa Cookhouse,
all they could eat.

Also visited Trinidad, with Trinidad Bay and beach,
fell in love with the place, sweet little anchorage.

If the hippy and flowerchild photos come out okay, I may
post them online. You might look at them and think they
were photos from 1969.

Richard Rongstad
U.S.N. Retired
Republic of Vietnam 1969-1970
Phu Cat to Phu Quoc
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I'm a U.S. Navy Vietnam War vet against John Kerry
Phu Cat to Phu Quoc 1969-1970

Did Jane Fonda help the North Vietnamese communists?
http://vikingphoenix.com/politics/polls/jfondapoll-1.htm

[garb1015]

In the early seventies a lot of SoCal hippies migrated north to get out of the big city and find a simpler life. I am not surprised that a lot of them ended up in Humboldt County since Humboldt's claim to fame back then was the pot they grew.
I have no doubt that they raised their children in their image. They probably sit around camp fires in the evening and tell stories about different marches they participated in.