Don't think the Ca Central Valley crops would get
harvested without people SOB, though work for
sure. I sympathize themdurrelllrobert - 9-4-2013 at 10:55 AM
There are many unidentified casualties of various wars buried in unmarked graves around the world but no one wrote a song about them.DENNIS - 9-4-2013 at 11:13 AM
"Eighty miles southwest of Fresno, road workers reported hearing what sounded like an explosion, only to look up and see the left wing shear off the
Douglas DC-3 passing high above them."
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Sounds like a Sidewinder Missile hit to me. Cisco - 9-4-2013 at 12:13 PM
Plane Wreck at Los Gatos
(also known as "Deportee")
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Martin Hoffman
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"
My father's own father, he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life;
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, "They are just deportees"
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?danaeb - 9-4-2013 at 12:14 PM
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Originally posted by durrelllrobert
There are many unidentified casualties of various wars buried in unmarked graves around the world but no one wrote a song about them.
The Doors, "Unknown Soldier", 1968DENNIS - 9-4-2013 at 12:17 PM
And more than a half century later, we still have it screwed up.DENNIS - 9-4-2013 at 04:09 PM
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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
And more than a half century later, we still have it screwed up.
Who's "we."chuckie - 9-4-2013 at 04:12 PM
Got a good cut on that tune..Joan Baez.....EdZeranski - 9-4-2013 at 04:24 PM
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Woody Guthrie"?
Wasn't there a legal agricultural worker/bracero program back then? I believe there was a legal path for farm workers to be in California then be
transported back to Mexico. I was a kid but something about that rings a bell.
EdZ KG6UTS
1 away!
EdZeranski - 9-4-2013 at 04:27 PM
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Sounds like a Sidewinder Missile hit to me.
Stinger
EdZDENNIS - 9-4-2013 at 05:16 PM
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Originally posted by EdZeranski
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Sounds like a Sidewinder Missile hit to me.
Stinger
EdZ
Scary... for a domestic hit.
Could be, though. Radical Islam got the deportees. Bajahowodd - 9-5-2013 at 04:43 PM
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Originally posted by DENNIS
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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
And more than a half century later, we still have it screwed up.
