I still have my McCarthy in 1968 button. Think I will wear it Sunday.

[Faygo Kid]

Was a high school junior that spring, when so many went for Clean Gene. As a sophomore, I had gone from a supporter of the war and a debater on behalf of that point (the domino theory) to a student who realized that we had stopped elections in Vietnam that would have not gone "our way." We were all beaten to a pulp by assassinations - MLK in April; Bobby in June. We lost. Richard Nixon became president, and the war went on, and the world is different (worse) because of it. Gene McCarthy represents what was good and honorable in a difficult time. By the way, no Tom DeLay corruption ever tainted his record. And his personal life was profound and decent. And while we are at it, thank God for George McGovern as well, an honorable man who was a true war hero and was right about the war, yet is castigated as evil by Republicans today the likes of which we never, in our worst nightmares, thought would exist. So, yeah, I think I will wear my button on Sunday.

[Hardrada]

1. I found my old SDS button and a 1968 peace button

and I have started wearing them daily.

[Faygo Kid]

4. I see you are from Iowa. Michigan ties? Where SDS was founded.

Tom Hayden and the Port Huron Statement. Or am I just getting senile? Bless you for standing up. We are few and far between; my daughter is a cynical Xer, and aren't the Millenials now in college just the most happy to have George Bush as their president? Someone, somewhere, sometime ought to at least stir the pot. But, I guess not. SDS did that. No chance now, I guess.

[Hardrada]

5. We had five SDS chapters in Iowa or at least those

were the ones the FBI was keeping an eye on. (Found some info via Freedom of Information Act). I was a member of two of them. Wherever I was at school I joined up. I am Minnesotan and Iowan by upbringing. Yes, we had the Port Huron Statement. We used to have some copies for people at the U. of Iowa. We did quite a bit of consciousness raising and embarrassed a number of warmongering corporate and military recruiters. I was frantic the last months SDS was alive to keep it going because I knew there was no other radical national student organization to take its place. I knew nothing good or progressive would happen in the US after that powerful youthful vision had gone. And nothing has. It would seem, however, with the internet, faxes and instant networking that a student movement could recur with relative ease. The will for one has not yet gotten strong enough.

[Fenris]

2. Here's mine.

I bought it a few years ago at the LBJ museum in Austin (ironic, yes).

[Faygo Kid]

3. Same one I have! Brings it all back.

That's the one I will be wearing. I feel very old and tired tonight, and it's not because Gene McCarthy died. It's because our nation has been hijacked. I want Jimmy Carter's new book for Christmas.

[GrumpyGreg]

6. Good for you. I,unfortunately ,am a tosser and got rid of mine.