History

San Diego’s GI movement tried to stop the Vietnam War

San Diego has a long memory for war and a short memory for dissent. That’s not an accident. This city supplied ships, pilots, technicians, and Marines for Vietnam the way Pittsburgh once supplied steel. The war was not somewhere else. It was here, in the barracks, the flight lines, the shipyards, the college campuses, and the neighborhoods that lived on deployment schedules. What we don’t…

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Think The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry died in the 19th Century? Don’t tell Ramona.

For many a year, Karen Carlson, a steadfast farmer and rancher in the rolling hills of Ramona, has tilled the soil and tended her groves with an unyielding spirit. Now, she’s setting her sights on something larger than her own five-acre spread. With a heart as big as the valley itself, she’s rallying to breathe new life into the California State Grange and rekindle the…