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The Covered Wagon was a couple of months old when it decided to march from Mountain Home AFB to Boise, Idaho during the first week in August to mark the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The forty-mile march led through the desert, at the hottest part of the year, and old-timers in the area said the group of fifty enlisted men and women, and officers, would never make it. But the rattlesnakes, sage-brush, boiling sun and thirst were endured as they marched right through and into the Emmanuel Methodist Church in Boise, where a special service was celebrated for peace. From there, joined by Boise supporters, the GIs marched to the world headquarters of the Morrison-Knudsen Corporation, to protest that company's part in the genocidal war effort. (The album cover photo was taken during the desert march.) |
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