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U.S. ARMY
FORT HOOD


The duty Texas
town of Killeen, just outside Fort Hood, which housed over 30,000
troops, became the home of the GI coffeehouse known as the Oleo Strut.
the oleo strut
JOIN US MARCH FOR PEACE

SUMMER OF '68
NEWSREEL 1968]

GI: Being in the
Army, I can get over here and I can sit down, and I can write poetry ...

and I can sit
here and listen, and I can forget I'm in the army for about 15 minutes
to an hour, or something like this.

COFFEEHOUSE GI: We
have three very simple rules here.

Three very
simple rules and that's all.
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