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...When I come back, the Man's going to want to talk and I ain't going to want to listen," said Cpl. Joseph Harris. "'Oh, son,' he'll say to me. 'Don't worry about it. We'll give you your freedom in time.' My ancestors did the talking, and I don't have the time...
...ain't coming back playing, 'Oh, Say can you see,' " said Marine Sgt. Paul Thomas of Chesapeake, Va., in Danang. "I'm whistling' 'Sweet Georgia Brown,' and I got the band...
...When you come back to the States and the [white] Man's going say, 'Sorry, son, but I'm going to give you these rights, but you ain't ready for the rest of them yet,' after I put my life on the line. Uh-uh," said Sgt. Randolph Doby, a black Marine from Milwaukee in Danang. "The man who says that, I'm going to try to kill him. If I can't kill him, he's going to wish he were dead...
...that we're gonna look at or what he's got or what he's gonna do." At one point on this night, they stop a young black about to go into a bar in a known narcotics area. They search him for drugs. "This just ain't right," he complains over and over. His protests get louder, so Boston warns him: "Don't you grandstand on me." The youth is clean; they release him and he disappears, muttering. Either he has just managed a masterful counterfeit of innocence-or the police have made...
Like Miss Brer Foxhole in The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, they are "a true dead ringer for something like you ain't never seen." And like a lady named Bessie in an earlier, simpler tune, The Band just can't be beat...