A semi-literate reader takes us and some other readers to the woodshed over a 2006 article on "An open letter to my teen-age son"

One of the coolest parts of having a long-running blog is that the posts are available and findable on the internet years later.  There are probably 20 or so posts we've written on subjects that appear in few other places on the internet.  Some of these articles come up at the top of internet searches (this one is the no. 1 result in a google search), and people often comment on articles from many years ago. 

"An Open Letter To My Teenage Son" is one of those.  I remember hearing this on AM radio many times when it came out (in late 1967).  It starts out half-rational--even inspirational--and descends into reactionary gibberish and hate when he talks about the war and "draft-dodging."

Click here to see our article, the "lyrics," and a link to the actual "song."

A couple of days ago, someone--anonymous, of course--left two comments on this post and on the comments about the post. 

"all you people must not believe in the flag or what rights you have that the military gave you by fighting for you damn rights so you don't like it there are other countrys that you can go to and then you can go to heckes after ward"


"well as for the youngster from Saterday July 12th 2008. that is becuase you were not brought up right i have listen to this song from almost day one and it brought chills to my back and its still doing it today so if i was your father i would say good get the f out. Thats just what i felt like"
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