I'm A Child Of The Sixties, I'm A Man Of The Sixties. During That Period Of Time This Country Was Coming Apart At The Seams. We Were In Southeast Asia. Good Men Were Dying For America And For The Constitution. - SearchQuotes

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I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

Curt Flood

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