I was six and in first grade. I lived in Kansas with my mom and my little brother. My dad was some place far away called "Viet Nam".
One April day my mom answered the telephone. It was the local newspaper. They asked her how she felt about her husband's jet being shot down out of the sky. I think I was standing behind her in the hallway. I think I felt the air being sucked out of the house.
I was only six but I had a fair notion about what war was and what it meant. I watched some tv news, I looked to see if I saw my dad's face in the news footage while Walter Chronkite talked. I knew some kid's dads came home before they were supposed to. Some of them came in boxes, some came all bandaged up. I didn't know for a little while if my dad got the box or the bandage.
I still remember how that felt to my stomach. The good news was dad was alive. They were talking about cutting off his leg, but he was alive and he was coming home with bandages and not in a box. Here is one of the photographs that landed in the local paper.
I saw other things on the news too. I knew there were people called "hippies" who did things like march for peace. Peace sounded like a good idea to me, if the people who were shooting at my dad would consider the idea a good one too.
There was also rock and roll on the radio and this song by a group named "Hair". Remember?
When the Moon is in the seventh house
and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Then peace will guide the planets
and love will steer the stars
At dawn on 14th February the day dedicated to St Valentine,
the patron saint of Love, the Moon in Libra enters the seventh house of
relationships. And Jupiter and Mars are aligned in Aquarius in the
twelfth house of spiritual transformation.
We actually then, now begin this age of Aquarius. Read more here.
The suggestion is that at 7:25am GMT, or at 7:25am your own local time, you might want to join with others to give a few minutes of your time and attention, and therefore your vibration, however you feel appropriate, to the dawning of Aquarius.
Seems like a lovely Valentine's morning thing to do.
P.S. Don't forget to tell your friends, especially your Radical Muslim friends, or maybe any Mexican Drug Cartel members you happen to pal around with, you know, lets get those kind of people involved.
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