Letter to Editor
How history repeats itself
November 6, 2016
One advantage of being so old is to see history repeating itself – such as people promoting the killing of police.
Fifty years ago, more or less, there was a movement promoting killing police and military trainees and burning the U.S. flag.
There was one rich singer who got richer by singing a song saying he had killed an officer. He actually was convicted and jailed. The anti-police and military movement got a lot of publicity. People burning the flag got a lot of publicity. There always was a riot crowd present where the burning occurred who would fight the police who tried to enforce the la...
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