American Document/Dead Letter
Dead Letter [name withheld] [street address withheld] Stony Brook NY, 11790 Senator Spencer Abraham United States Senate B40-4 Dirksen Building Washington DC, 20510 August 17, 1995 Dear...
...Pretty funny huh...
...I found a net site for the congressional record and I found your wonderful comments on the man that you and I loved so much...
...Then I found out that one of the big guys in the capitol is a Deadhead...
...And I'll send you some more dollars as soon as I can...
...Since High school I have been a Deadhead since high School it has brought me in touch as I'm sure you can relate with the real me, making me a free thinker and a true free spirit...
...Please send me some bumper stickers if you have them I'll put them on the car immediately...
...Thats why I thought it would be cool if we started a National Dead day to celebrate Jerry's gift to music, art, and the world and the way he united us all under one name The-Grateful Dead...
...Dead Letter [name withheld] [street address withheld] Stony Brook NY, 11790 Senator Spencer Abraham United States Senate B40-4 Dirksen Building Washington DC, 20510 August 17, 1995 Dear Spence, Let me just say one thing you are the most in touch man on the senate i have ever seen...
...Even though We've never met I feel like we're bros...
...I had a great idea the other day that I thought might get buried as quick as it popped up...
...I was truly touched at your wonderful comments about the man and his life...
...I was just looking around cause I was bored...
...In memory of Jerry, [name withheld] The American Spectator November 1995 69...
...I'll spread the word too...
...So, How long have you been following the Dead...
...What is the origin of the word politics...
...Do you know of amy other congressmen who follow the dead...
...Polybeing the latin for many and Tics which are blood sucking parasites...
...For years I have always thought that senators and other polititians were stuffed shirts (Whatever that means) and kind of out of touch with this nations 18-30 crowd commonly called generation X, a term that I have as I'm sure you have come to resent...
...I was surfing the internet the other-day at my moms work...
...We can do this...
...We should all band together on this one the right wingers in the congress won't understand and you'll need lots of support from fellow Deadheads in order for you to get it into law...
...I have sent you a check for five dollars for you to put it twards legislation for Dead Day...
...Let me explain myself so as not to totally freak you out...
...We should be celebrating the Death of Jerry the same way we celebrated his music...
...I couldn't believe it, I mean I know that The Dead spans all barriers of time and age and stuff but I had no Idea it could break thought to our beureacrats...
...I was way off though...
...I'll show you how narrow it was: I used to tell this joke all the timeit goes like this...
...I was pretty bummed cause I had just heard a few days earlier that one of the truly great visionaries of our time, Jerry Garcia had died...
...My thinking was narrow minded and I apologize to you for that...
Vol. 28 • November 1995 • No. 11
