Peter Paul & Mary - Blowin in the wind

Tonight in Person 1966

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[stukin70s]

My fourth grade music teacher was severely reprimanded for teaching this song to us; our principal said it was "subversive". She taught us this song a few days after a memorial service in the high school gym for a graduate who had died in Vietnam recently; they attended our school together. Shortly after her reprimand she quit teaching and joined the peace movement; I never saw her again. I learned from her example, to thine own self be true; some beliefs require, and are worth, the sacrifice.

[startrekkin1701]

i pray for the 64 people who disliked this

[DexterHaven49]

Best version. Mary had a great vocal timbre.

[TrekkieCSI101]

@stukin70s , as an educator, your comment brought tears to my eyes, and as a believer in the rights of free speech as well as peace, it made my heart a little lighter. Your words, and your memories of your fourth grade teacher, are reminders that America is still a land of dreams, it is still a land of freedom, and it is still a land of possibilities. Your school made a terrible choice, in an environment of terrible choices, but your teacher made a beautiful decision which lives on today. Thanks

[stukin70s]

@Connectification1993 Often freedom of speech comes at a price; sometimes your job, sometimes your life.During the same time, citizens in the civil rights movement believed in freedom and equality, many paid with their lives fighting for it.. America; land of the free because of the brave, Remember; often the brave are not armed or in the military but their sacrifices are no less important or less sacred. America will only be free as long as her citizens are willing to fight to keep it that way.

[sophieclarkpoem]

@stukin70s I learned the song in german at school

[sophieclarkpoem]

@stukin70s I learnded the song in german at school.

[Connectification1993]

@stukin70s I surprise to hear you said that. America was supposed to be the land of freedom, and I believe that includes the freedom of speech!

[stukin70s]

@Connectification1993 In my little farm belt, Republican right wing, bible thumping corner of the Yakima Valley, you didn't do, say, write or act in any manner that might be considered "unpatriotic." Any kind of anti-Vietnam War expression was strictly forbidden in the early years of the war, to do so meant being branded as a communist sympathizer and a danger to the state. Remember; these same people worked at Hanford Nuclear Reservation where they created material for nuclear warheads!

[Connectification1993]

@stukin70s Why did the US Government at that time didn't like this song?

[Jeli575]

And how many deaths... Dadada ladeedaah... Ooh hoo hoo hoo ohh eeey yeah! Lovin evry bit of it!

[Gustavo97188]

That's a very interesting story, I can feel the vibrations of those gone-by times.