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Time for Pete Seeger To Repent
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Submitted by Chip Beziat, Sep 7, 2007 09:51

I discovered folk music and Pete Seeger in 1963. He has supported many of the most positive movements in our recent history. It was his idealism that made him look into communism.

Many of his songs are as pro-American ideals as any every written. Some show us where we fall short.

I have learned to appreciate freedom and liberty singing his songs and teach them whenever I can. The author seems more bitter than Mr. Seeger ever was. Did the author lead freedom marches, save the Hudson River, help end the VietNam war?

Seeger is a seminal figure in the history of the 20th Century - worts and all.

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Sandra Dickson 

Sep 2, 2007 08:24

Thanks for the remarkable review of Pete Seeger's life and positions. To understand how confused, benighted and hypocritical he is... [MORE]

Hugh Dietz 

Jun 12, 2007 17:44

Seeger is a card-carrying member of the Fishkill (NY) Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1286, and has been for decades. [MORE]

Edward J. Renehan Jr. 

Jun 12, 2007 10:54

Dear Mr. Radosh, Thanks for your great column on Pete Seeger today. I was a child of the 60's so... [MORE]

Chaim Caron 

Jun 12, 2007 10:25

Is Joe McCarthy alive and well? Pete Seeger was a Stalinist at a time in history when most communists fell... [MORE]

Tarantula 

Jun 12, 2007 08:57

I discovered folk music and Pete Seeger in 1963. He has supported many of the most positive movements in our...

Chip Beziat 

Sep 7, 2007 09:51

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