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Title: Joan Baez banned at Walter Reed hospital
Source: news.yahoo.com
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_en_mu/people_baez
Published: May 2, 2007
Author: staff
Post Date: 2007-05-02 19:42:13 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 1243
Comments: 11

WASHINGTON - Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she doesn't know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as she planned.

In a letter to The Washington Post published Wednesday, she said rocker John Mellencamp had asked her to perform with him last Friday and that she accepted his invitation.

"I have always been an advocate for nonviolence and I have stood as firmly against the Iraq war as I did the Vietnam War 40 years ago," she wrote. "I realize now that I might have contributed to a better welcome home for those soldiers fresh from Vietnam. Maybe that's why I didn't hesitate to accept the invitation to sing for those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. In the end, four days before the concert, I was not 'approved' by the Army to take part. Strange irony."

Baez, 66, told the Post in a telephone interview Tuesday that she was not told why she was left off the program by the Army. "There might have been one, there might have been 50 (soldiers) that thought I was a traitor," she told the paper.

The Post reported that Walter Reed officials did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday, but that in an e-mailed statement published Monday on http://RollingStone.com, spokesman Steve Sanderson said the medical center received the request for participation by Baez just two days before the concert.

"These additional requirements were not in the agreement/contract and would have required a modification," Sanderson told the magazine's Web site.

Baez's manager, Mark Spector, told the Post that Mellencamp's management invited Baez to perform in March and handled all the arrangements. The Post said Mellencamp's manager, Randy Hoffman, did not return calls requesting comment and that Mellencamp's publicist said the singer was ill Tuesday and unavailable.

But Mellencamp earlier told http://RollingStone.com: "They didn't give me a reason why she couldn't come. We asked why and they said, 'She can't fit here, period.' "

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#10. To: Ferret Mike (#0)

Time to drag the generals out and put them in a pit and run a bulldozer over them. Nazi pricks. They sure are happy to let homo drug addicts like Pigboy salute the troops. God forbid someone should favor peace over war.

When this mess is over, time to clean out all military leadership, jail them, and find sane people to take over.

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#11. To: Mekons4 (#10)

In the book Crisis in Command, the authors noted that wars tend to drive out the sane and competent. They pointed out that those NCOs and officers remaining in the military after the Korean conflict were generally disfunctional people who stay in the military because they are addicted to the brown nosing way of being told what to do and are generally disfunctioanl out in the real world.

They cited this as a major factor in the lack of unit cohesion and the lack of moral in the military exacerbated by the Vietnam War.

In the aftermath of this war, I expect all the competent warriors to exit, stage left or right leaving generally undesirable leaders running things.

It will take a long time for the military to recover from Bush and company, if it ever truly does that is.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-03 01:21:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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