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I am glad that he had his health and remained in his right mind, at least until 10 days before the end. I don't know what caused him to go to a hospital for six days, which apparently didn't help much if at all, but it could have been worse. He lived a long life, worked hard, earned a right livelihood, and gave generously of his wealth and his time. Singing for more than 70 years, he inspired millions of people to surround hate and force it to surrender.

A lucky man to have had his health and faculties until such an old age. He will be missed, rest in peace and I'll see you on the flipside Pete.....

sbh says

"Well I'm just just a typical American boy....

"I'm allergic to flowers and bugs...
And I'm addicted to a thousand drugs."

"In 1955, when summoned before Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, he didn't plead the Fifth Amendment, but declined to name the names of other communists, refusing to assist their witchhunt. He was ultimately sentenced to a year in jail for contempt of Congress (the sentence was overturned on appeal)."

Pete Seeger, Arthur Miller, Arthur Kinoy, and many more, showed heroic courage and true patriotism in times of political adversity. While we complain today about whatever bothers us, they dreamed of this day, when people would have the freedoms that we take for granted.

"Little Boxes" was written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962 for Pete Seeger, who recorded it in 1963.

Those "little boxes" that Mrs. Reynolds so contemptously refers to were built as postwar housing for returning GI's. I suspect they looked pretty good compared to the battlefields they left behind. That generation went on to become one of the most productive in our nation's history. I wonder how a song ridiculing the ugly piles of state-owned concrete "housing" that people were forced to live in in Soviet Russia would have played out then, where people had to eke out an existence waiting on lines for food and things that weren't available after three hours. Inside those little boxes were brand new color television sets and pastel colored appliances and under their carports were brand new chrome and tail-finned cars made in every color of the rainbow expect charcoal gray as today, things no one in Russia would ever enjoy. The most important thing is that inside them people were living and doing as they pleased, unregimented, without so much as a by-your-leave to some state bureaucracy. It's no question that in the 40's and 50's many of our intellectuals were enthralled with Marxism and saw it as the inevitable wave of the future which no force could stop.

"Goodnight Irene"

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