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Show 75 ground's circulation. In Colorado Springs, the other volunteers left issues of the newspaper publishers and the windshields of on parked automobiles bearing military identification bumper stickers. In addition, issues were placed in the mailboxes Springs apartment houses to be living. in which Occasionally, house gave away copies buses traveling military personnel were believed volunteers from the Homefront coffee to Colorado stopped in intersections. of Colorado Springs pedestrians Copies were between Colorado left Springs on and motorists the seats of and Fort Carson. public Several hundred copies of each issue were bution to and others who visited the coffeehouse. military personnel Roberts and Stocker kept at the Homefront sought official permission Aboveground to army personnel at Fort Carson. mitted August 11, 1969, on command approximately one month later. manders to delay personnel This or regulation was interpreted in explained troops. Carson The is found in in a was Fort Carson this.memo, a to Army Regulations 210-10. Department of the Army memo As commander could delay distribution of in the opinion of the commander, danger to the loyalty, discipline, II sub authority of Army com 1969 and entitled "Guidance on Dissent." printed matter if it presented, "a clear This request, prevent the distribution of printed matter located at army posts dated May 27, to distribute eventually denied by the was for distri Although permission to distribute denied by the post commander, no or morale of his Aboveground at Fort reason was given as the basis of the decision. Despite this decision, copies of Aboveground were distributed at Fort Carson by individual servicemen who volunteered to do so. |
