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24. How the Grateful Dead Inspired Me to Devote My Life to Patriotism and American Values

be sure to read all three parts. This is part one:

http://harddawn.com/how-the-grateful-dead-inspired-me-to-devote-my-life-to-patriotism/

It was 1978 and I was about to experience the most horrifying moment of my young life.

Mother and I had traveled to Nashville so that we could visit with her sister and get a little shopping in before Christmas. The trip was a special treat for me because I would be attending my first big city church service. The glamour of it all was terrifically exciting.

As we made our way through town that fateful evening, the streets confused us. The darkness was enveloping. In no time, we were lost. And then, around a corner, there was a strange hum. It beckoned, that dull roar of feet and tambourine clatter.

I often tell myself that that was the night I became a man. Before, I had merely been a boy, a good-natured teenager with a fondness for faith and football. But what I witnessed next forever changed me.

I know now that what we encountered around that corner was the prelude to a concert by the hippie rock band, the Grateful Dead. At the time, I truly believed I was staring into the angry, sweaty bowels of hell. And that Satanic realm glared right back.

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