Red Ink and Rewrites?

This blog's name refers to a publication created from prose and poetry back in high school at Newfield H.S. on Marshall Drive in Selden, NY (incidently the automobile is covered under a number of patents referred to as the "Selden patents" so beware imitators!) back when the Marines came to the school, back when the first Earth Day festivities began 1970. The school newspaper "Quadrangle" was supplemented with a yearly publication which people submitted works to. The Marine Corps JROTC there was the first I think in the country, (one Army in CT, the Navy and Air Force on the West Coast according to my research). I tried to get one student paper more frequently published by pamphleteering the school, with the help of the Smithaven Ministries, with "Freedom" in which I stated, behind the cover of an outline of the Statue of Liberty, to publish just about anything. Only one issue got distributed to the arriving buses behind the high chain link fence at the "dead end" of Marshall Drive that Newfield High School is on. One of my helpful friends reported being beaten up by a janitor for it. Prior, a former student, Ariel Marino, died in Vietnam, in a demolition unit. A somewhat recent "Defense Monitor" on PBS (maybe its last transmission) stated that there are now 20,000 JROTC in mostly poor schools around the country at a yearly cost of $1 billion. They asked if this in the age of "volunteer service" which Newfield H.S. helped usher in, is necessary? I wonder if its legal, it seems discriminatory and perhaps sexist, let alone relegated to only one branch of the Armed Services. Towards the end of the draft, I (in the class of 1970) was given a number and thereafter watched the official ending of the Selective Service's draft. I stayed "1A", though attending the local community college, (thereby elligble for a "student deferment") in "Marine Technology" the scientific study of the marine environment, which I left after I was told there would be no jobs in it on Long Island as the environment was dying. What a dilemma! I was at my Aunt Margaret Murray's wake (nee Myers, oldest of eleven children, my Dad, a US Army 81mm mortar WWII veteran who served in Italy, was the youngest) yesterday, she passed away at 101, a few days ago in Huntington, NY. Her son, once an Army Captain in Korea, directed "Huntley and Brinkley" and produced "NBC Nightly News From New York" and lastly, both Democratic and Republican Convention coverages for CBS in 1976. His eulogy, he died in Mexico City where his wife, an Avon executive worked, was read at the UN Chapel by television journalist and author Edwin Newman, who read aloud a letter he wrote that apologized for the cancellation of the report to his crew there, a report on the "common soldiers view" of the Vietnam Conflict, cancelled by "higher ups". I wasn't in either places, that the NBC network was sued for 100 million over its allegations of "body count" manipulations by General Westmoreland had nothing to do with it. ("Video: “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception� [1982] - a shot of General Westmoreland; TV documentary blames the general for misleading the people; attacks the Pentagon and the military; General Westmoreland sues the network for $100 million- this was settled;" http://www.lorenam.com/vianello%20notes.htm). Quite a few years later I read a local history in the Middle Country School District #11 (which I also worked for as a substitute teacher and a night janitor) library that Selden, NY was named after the judge, Henry Rogers Selden, (http://winningthevote.org/HRSelden.html) who testified on behalf of Susan B. Anthony in Upstate Rochester, NY. Ms. Anthony had posed as a man to vote (women were not allowed then) and he, though it was and still is unwritten law that judges do not testify in court for other people, he did testify as to her character and sincerity, before the passage of the Twentieth Amendment, which is, "An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex" - Word Web 3.02. Wish I had known all that then.