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Dogtopia of Springfield offers dog daycare, boarding, spa services and training in our spacious, off-leash facility. Since November of 2012, we’ve provided dog parents with a safe and fun place to leave their dog or pamper their pup.

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Name:
Mochi
Age: 9 months old
Breed: Beagle Mix
Favorite Activities: Mochi loves to wrestle and romp with all of her buddies, followed by some quality napping!
Friends: Maple the Ridgeback Mix, Bentley the Mini Doodle, and Kona the Puggle
Most Lovable Qualities: Mochi is always ridiculously excited to come to daycare and is sure to let everyone know about it!

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Get peace of mind by leaving your dog in our daycare, whether it’s just for a few hours or for the whole day. Dogs are separated by size and temperament in our specially designed playrooms, and will enjoy a variety of activities and exercise during our 100% supervised playtime. You can peek in on them throughout the day with our playroom webcams, which can be accessed by any desktop or mobile device.

Need your dog to stay longer? We also offer overnight and extended boarding.

If your furry child needs extra attention and training, we provide dog obedience courses in partnership with All About Dogs.

If your pup is getting to be a bit smelly, we also offer a full range of spa services as a part of our daycare and boarding packages. In addition to the basics, we offer full-service grooming including trims, hand scissoring, Dogtopia’s famous de-shedding packages, as well as adorable bandanas.

Our lobby boutique sells a unique variety of treats, candles, sweaters/jackets, bowls and more.

Please contact us for a free, no obligation tour of our facilities. We would love to meet you and your dog and show you everything we have to offer!

Dogtopia of Springfield has earned certification status as a Heroes for Healthy Pets^TM facility. The Heroes for Healthy Pets^TM  Certification Program in Infectious Disease Management provides training for preventative care, including strategic vaccination, and cleaning and disinfection protocols to help maintain disease-free facilities and keep pets healthy.

The program is co-sponsored by the International Boarding and Pet Services Association, National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America, Pet Sitters International, VETgirl, and Barkleigh Productions.

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We proudly serve dog parents in Springfield, Lorton, Newington, Annandale, Fairfax Station, Alexandria, Burke, Ft. Belvoir and the surrounding regions at our conveniently-located facility. We are close to I95 and Sarasota Shopping Center, and are just one block from the Springfield/Newington Costco.

If you’re coming from I95, take the Fairfax County Parkway Exit.  From Fairfax County Parkway, take the Boudinot Drive exit.  Turn right onto Fullerton Road.  After the light at Boston Avenue, we are the second driveway on the left.

There’s plenty of parking in our lot.

Since we opened in 2012, we have donated to many local animal charities including Fairfax Animal Shelter, Lucky Dog Rescue, Homeward Trails Animal Rescue, Washington Animal Rescue League, The Junior League of Washington District of Columbia and Caring Hands Animal Support & Rescue. We also donate to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

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All dogs participating in our daycare or boarding services must first attend a Meet & Greet with our team. That way, we can determine if your pup is the right fit for our open play environment. You can book a meet and greet by calling (703) 982-0099 or by emailing [email protected]. Also, feel free to stop by our facility for a free, no obligation tour!

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• Remy on St. Patrick’s Day

• Max H. enjoyed his trip to Paris!

• Lucy S is spooky on Halloween.

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• Harper and Rooney are our super heros!

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– We can make sure that all charges against you disappear.

– What should I do?

Find what we have lost.

– Flash drive?

Springfield nodded. The waiter returned with a tray in his hands. Mineral water and coffee. He carefully arranged everything on the table and walked away.

“I don’t know where the flash drive is,” I said. nine0003

– I have no doubt that it is so. However, you were by Susan Mark’s last moments of her life. She left the Pentagon with a flash drive, but she doesn’t have it at home, or in her car, or in any of the places she has been. So we expect you to pay attention to something. It may not mean anything to you, but it does matter to us.

– I saw her shoot herself. That, perhaps, is all.

– Something else must have happened.

– Your chief of staff was on the train. What did he see? nine0003

Nothing.

– What’s on the flash drive?

– I can’t give out this information.

– Then I won’t be able to help you.

– Why do you need to know?

– I must know at least the general outlines of the problem with which I have to deal.

– Then you should ask yourself a question.

– Which one?

– The one that I haven’t asked yet, the one that you should have asked yourself from the very beginning, idiot.

– What are you talking about? Competition? Sergeants versus officers? nine0003

– This battle ended a long time ago.

And then I unwound the ball to the beginning to find the question I didn’t ask. It all started on the sixth route, with passenger number four, sitting alone on an eight-seat bench, a white woman in her forties, ordinary appearance, with black hair, in a black jacket and with a black bag. Susan Mark: Civilian, divorced, mother, sister, adopted child, permanent resident of Annandale, Virginia.

Susan Mark, Pentagon civil servant. nine0003

– What did Susan Mark do? I asked.

Chapter 61

Springfield took a long sip of water and a quick smile crossed his lips.

– Not immediately, but in the end you figured it out.

– So what was her job?

– She was a system administrator in charge of information technology.

– I don’t know what that means.

– In other words, she knew the master passwords to the computers.

– Which computers? nine0003

– Not the most important. She couldn’t launch rockets. However, she had access to the HRC archive[52]. And to some other archives.

– But not to the Delta archives? They are in North Carolina, at Fort Bragg, not the Pentagon.

– Computers are networked, now everything is connected to everything.

– And did she have access?

– The human factor.

– What?

– There is a measure of human error.

– Measure?

– There are many system administrators. They have common problems. They help each other. They have a chat room and their own forum. Obviously, there is some not-so-secure code that makes passwords more accessible than they should be. Thus, a leak occurs. We believe that they knew about it, but this situation suited them. So one of them could help the other without much fuss. Even if there was no bug in the code, they would have changed it. nine0003

I remembered Jacob Mark saying, “She was computer fluent.”

– So she had access to the Delta archives? I asked.

Springfield nodded silently.

“You and Sansom retired five years before me,” I said. Nothing was computerized back then. We didn’t get to the archives.

“Times are changing,” Springfield said. “The US Army as we know it has been around for ninety years. Over the years, we have accumulated a lot of all sorts of nonsense. Rusty old weapons that someone’s grandfather took with him as a souvenir, captured flags and uniforms that are gradually becoming unusable, well, you yourself understand. And many thousands of tons of paper. Perhaps millions of tons. A very real problem. Fire risk, mice, real estate…

– So what?

– For the last ten years they have been cleaning up the house. Artifacts are either sent to museums or destroyed, and documents are scanned and stored in computers.

I nodded.

– Susan Mark copied one of these files.

“She didn’t just copy it,” Springfield clarified. She moved it to an external drive and erased the original.

– Is the external drive a flash drive?

Springfield nodded.

– And we don’t know where she is. nine0003

– Why are you sure she did it?

– Susan Mark fits the bill. A significant part of the archive can be traced through award lists. The Commission on Human Rights has lists of those awarded, as you yourself said. She worked as a system administrator. And she could be reached through her son.

– Why did she erase the original? I asked.

– I don’t know.

– This increased the risk.

– And very important.

– What was in the document? nine0003

– I can’t give out this information.

– When did she take and scan documents from the archives?

– A little over three months ago. This is a slow process. The program has been running for ten years, they got to the early eighties.

– Who is doing this work?

– Specially trained personnel.

– And there’s a leak. Hoses appeared here almost immediately.

– Obviously.

– Do you know who is responsible for the leak?

– Necessary steps are being taken.

– What was in the document?

– I can’t give out this information.

– However, the file was large.

– Large enough.

– And the Hoses want to get it.

– I think there is no doubt about it.

– Why do they need a document?

– I can’t give out this information.

– You often repeat these words.

– I often mean it.

– Who are the Khoses?

In response, he only smiled and made a circular motion with his hand – “all over again.” “I can’t give out this information.” Favorite answer of the sergeants. Six words, but the fourth is the key. nine0003

– Ask me questions. I will make guesses, you can comment on them,” I suggested.

– Who do you think the Khoses are?

– I believe they are Afghans.

“Go on,” he said.

– Not a very meaningful comment.

– Continue.

– They are probably Taliban or Al Qaeda sympathizers, possibly operatives or their collaborators.

No response.

Al-Qaeda, I said. “The Taliban are mostly at home. nine0003

– Continue.

“Operatives,” I said.

No response.

– Leaders?

– Continue.

– Does al-Qaeda use women as commanders?

– They use what brings results.

– It doesn’t seem plausible to me.

– They want us to think that way. They want us to look for men who are not in nature.

I was silent.

– Continue.

– Good. The one who calls herself Svetlana fought on the side of the Mujahideen; she knows you took a silenced sniper rifle from Gregory Khos. They used the name Hos and his history to evoke sympathy here. nine0003

– Why did you decide that?

– Because now al-Qaeda wants to get documentary evidence of what you guys did that night.

– Continue.

– And for what Sansom was awarded a medal. So, in those days, it was believed that he did something wonderful. But now the thought of that operation becoming known is worrying you. It looks like she looks different now.

– Continue.

– Sansom may be in a lousy position, but the government doesn’t want to screw up his pants either. So it is both personal and political. nine0003

– Continue.

– Did you get a medal for that night?

– “For excellent service in the Armed Forces.”

– It is given by the Minister of Defense.

Springfield nodded.

– A great little trinket for a humble sergeant.

– So that operation was more of a political nature than a military one.

– Naturally. At that time, we were not at war with anyone.

– Do you know that the Hoses killed four people and very likely Susan Mark’s son? nine0003

– We don’t know anything for sure, but we suspect it was their doing.

– So why haven’t you arrested them yet?

– I work as a secretary for a congressman. I can’t arrest anyone.

– What about federal agents?

– The feds are behaving very strangely. Apparently, they consider the Hos to be extremely dangerous top class enemy fighters, but for the moment they prefer to do field work.

– And what does that mean?

– That it’s better to leave them alone now.

– In fact, they simply cannot find them.

– Of course.

– Does that make you happy?

– The Hoses don’t have a flash drive, otherwise they wouldn’t keep looking for it. So I don’t care.

– It seems to me that this is wrong.

– Do you think their base is there? In one of the houses near which we met?

– In that quarter or next.

“That’s it, I think,” Springfield said. “The feds ransacked their hotel room while the Hoses were away. nine0003

One hundred dead hippies. A tale about how the US authorities killed the famous valas: matveychev_oleg – LiveJournal

Join me if you have time, as we walk along the path of memory in an era, almost four and a half decades ago – the time when America last had clothes in the form of ground forces waging a long and bloody war to impose on a sovereign state, hmmmm, “democracy”, sew tupoituneyadec .

First week of August 1964 years old. US warships under the command of US Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison were allegedly attacked while patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam. This event, later called the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident”, will lead to the immediate adoption by the US Congress of the apparently pre-prepared Tonkin Resolution, which, in turn, will plunge America deep into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it ends, more than fifty thousand American corpses, along with literally millions of Southeast Asians, will litter the battlefields of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. nine0003

By the way, the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin seems to be somewhat different from other alleged provocations that have brought this country to war. It was not, as we have seen so many times before, a “dress-up” operation (that is, an operation in which Uncle Sam attacks himself and then points an accusatory finger at someone else). Nor was it, as we have seen many times before, a deliberately provoked attack. No, as it turns out, the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin was actually an “attack” that never took place. The whole incident, and it is almost officially admitted, was completely faked. (However, it is quite possible that the aim was to provoke a retaliatory action, which could then be declared as an unprovoked attack on US ships. The ships in question were on a reconnaissance raid and acted in a clearly provocative manner. It is possible that when the Vietnamese troops didn’t answer as expected, Uncle Sam decided to pretend they did). nine0003

Nevertheless, at the beginning of February 1965, the United States, without declaring war and without good reason to wage war, will indiscriminately bomb North Vietnam. By March of that year, the infamous Operation Rolling Thunder would begin. Over the next three and a half years, millions of tons of bombs, shells, rockets, incendiaries and chemicals will be dropped on the Vietnamese people in what can only be described as one of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on this planet. nine0003

Also in March 1965, the first uniformed American soldiers will officially set foot on Vietnamese soil (although special forces disguised as “advisers” and “instructors” have been there for at least four years, and probably much longer). By April 1965, 25,000 uniformed American boys, most of whom are teenagers just out of high school, will be plodding through the rice fields of Vietnam. By the end of the year, the number of American troops will grow to 200,000.

Meanwhile, somewhere on the other side of the world, in the city of Los Angeles during these first months of 1965, a new “scene” is just beginning to take shape. In the geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon – a heavily wooded, rustic, tranquil but vaguely sinister part of Los Angeles nestled in the hills that separate the Los Angeles Basin from the San Fernando Valley – musicians, singers and the composers suddenly begin to gather, as if summoned there by some invisible Pied Piper. In a few months, the “hippie/flower children” movement will be born here, along with a new musical style that will provide the soundtrack to the tumultuous second half of the 1960s.

An uncanny number of rock superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon from the mid-1960s through the entire decade of the 1970s. The Byrds will be the first to release an album, whose brightest star will be David Crosby. The band’s debut effort, “Mr. Tambourine Man”, would be released on the 1965 summer solstice. It would quickly be followed by releases from the John Phillips-led “Mamas and the Papas” (“If You Believe Your Eyes and Ears”, January 1966), “Love” with Arthur Lee (“Love”, May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (Freak Out, June 1966), Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills and Neil Young (Buffalo Springfield, October 1966) and The Doors (The Doors) , January 1967).

An early pioneer on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene, Jim will quickly become one of the most iconic, controversial, critically acclaimed and influential figures to settle in Laurel Canyon. However, oddly enough, the self-proclaimed “King of the Lizards” has another reason for being famous, but which none of his many chroniclers would consider particularly significant for his career and possibly untimely death: as it turned out, he is the son of the aforementioned Admiral George Stephen Morrison. nine0003

So, while the father is actively involved in a plot to fabricate an incident that will be used to escalate an illegal war, the son is positioning himself as an icon of the “hippie”/anti-war masses. I guess nothing out of the ordinary. You know, the world is small and all that. And it cannot be said that the story of Jim Morrison is in any way unique.

In the early years of its heyday, the main figure of Laurel Canyon is a rather extraordinary person known as Frank Zappa. Although he and the various line-ups of his “Mothers of Invention” group would never achieve the commercial success of the group led by the admiral’s son, Frank would be a very influential figure among his contemporaries. Nestled in a cabin dubbed the “Log Cabin” in the heart of Laurel Canyon at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue, Zappa would host just about every musician who crossed the canyon from mid to late 1960s. He will also seek out and sign numerous deals for his various Laurel Canyon-based record labels. Many of these deals will be quite bizarre and somewhat obscure (eg Captain Beefheart and Larry Fisher (nicknamed “The Savage”)), but some, such as psychedelic and shock rocker Alice Cooper, will become superstars.

Zappa, along with some members of his considerable retinue (the Log Cabin was a kind of early community, with numerous hangers-on occupying various rooms in the main building and in the guest house, as well as in the peculiar caves and tunnels that penetrate the base of the house, far from a quaint manor, and by the way, the name seems to imply that the Log Cabin was a cave-filled, five-level house that had 190 sqm living room with three massive chandeliers and a huge floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace.) will also play an important role in defining the look and feel that will define the alternative “hippie” culture (although Zappa’s company favored the “Freak” label). However, Zappa (born, oddly enough, on the winter solstice of 1940) has never hidden the fact that he has always despised the “hippie” culture he helped create and surround himself with.

Frank Zappa Log Cabin

Given that Zappa was, by numerous accounts, a hardline authoritarian and supporter of the American war effort in Southeast Asia, it is perhaps not surprising that he felt no kinship with the youth movement he helped nurture. And it’s probably fair to say that Frank’s father also had little respect for 1960s youth culture, given that Francis Zappa was, in case you were wondering, a chemical weapons specialist assigned to (where else?) Edgewood Arsenal. Of course, Edgewood is the longtime seat of the US chemical weapons program, and is also often cited as a place deeply involved in the MK-ULTRA2 program. Curiously, Frank Zappa literally grew up in the Edgewood Arsenal, living the first seven years of his life in a military compound on the site. The family later moved to Lancaster, California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where Francis Zappa continued to do classified work for the military intelligence complex. His son, meanwhile, was grooming himself to be an icon for the crowds of peace and love. Again, I suppose this is not surprising. nine0003

By the way, Zappa’s manager is a shady character named Herb Cohen, who came to Los Angeles from the Bronx with his brother Mutt, just before the music and club scene started heating up. Cohen, a former Marine, spent several years traveling the world before arriving in Laurel Canyon. These travels, ironically, took him to the Congo in 1961, at the same time that leftist Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was tortured and killed by our own CIA. Don’t worry though, according to one of Zappa’s biographers, Cohen was not in the Congo on any nefarious intelligence mission. No, he was there, believe it or not, to supply weapons to Lumumba “to resist the CIA.” Because, you know, that’s exactly what traveling ex-Marines were doing in those days (as we’ll see pretty soon when we take a look at another Laurel Canyon star). nine0003

The other half of Laurel Canyon’s First Family is Frank’s wife, Gail Zappa, formerly known as Adelaide Slotman. Gail comes from a long line of career naval officers, including her father, who spent his entire life working on a secret atomic weapons project for the US Navy. Gail herself once worked as a secretary for the Office of Naval Research and Development (she also once said in an interview that she “heard voices all her life”). For many years, prior to their near-simultaneous arrival in Laurel Canyon, Gail attended Naval Kindergarten with “Mr. Mojo Risin'” himself, Jim Morrison (it is said that Gail once hit Jim over the head with a hammer as a child). The same Jim Morrison later went to the same high school in Alexandria, Virginia, as did two other future Laurel Canyon celebrities, John Phillips and Cass Elliott. nine0003

“Daddy” John Phillips, probably more than any other famous Laurel Canyon dweller, will play a major role in spreading the emerging youth “counterculture” across America. His contribution will be twofold: first, he will co-host (along with Manson’s companion4 Terry Melcher) the celebrated Monterey Rock Festival, which, thanks to unprecedented media coverage, will give the rest of America the first real opportunity to hear the music and glimpse the style of the nascent movement. “hippie”. Second, Phillips would compose a gaudy song known as “San Francisco (don’t forget to put flowers in your hair)” 5 that would quickly rise to the top of the charts. Along with the Monterey Rock Festival, the song will play a major role in luring disillusioned people (overwhelmingly underage runaways) to San Francisco, for the birth of the Haight-Ashbury6 phenomenon and the famous “Summer of Love” 1967 years old.

Joni Mitchell performing in the backyard of Cass Elliot’s home in Laurel Canyon; David Crosby and Eric Clapton listening to it, 1968.

Before arriving in Laurel Canyon and opening the doors of their home to future celebrities, celebrities and infamous (such as the aforementioned Charlie Manson, whose “Family” also spent time at the Log Cabin and at the home of “Mama” Cass Elliot in Laurel Canyon, which, in case you didn’t know, was right across the street from Abigail Folger and Wojtek Frykowski’s house, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves), John Edmund Andrew Phillips was (and rather unexpectedly) another kid from the military – reconnaissance complex. The son of US Marine Corps Captain Claude Andrew Phillips and a mother who claimed to have psychic and telekinetic abilities, John attended a number of elite military private schools in Washington, D. C., culminating in his admission to the prestigious Naval Academy in Annapolis. nine0003

After leaving Annapolis, John married Susie Adams, a direct descendant of “founding father” John Adams7. Susie’s father, James Adams Jr., was involved in what Susie described as “Air Force espionage in Vienna”, or what we call covert intelligence operations. Susie herself would later find employment at the Pentagon, along with John Philipps’ older sister, Rosie, who had been a regular at the complex for almost thirty years. John’s mother, “Dean” Phillips, also worked for the federal government most of her life. And John’s older brother, Tommy, was a battle-wounded ex-Marine who found a job as a police officer in Alexandria, albeit with a disciplinary record for engaging in a series of violent acts against people of color. nine0003

John Phillips, although surrounded throughout his life by military and intelligence officials, certainly did not engage in such matters. Or we should believe it. However, before succeeding in his musical career, John apparently visited, of course only by chance, rather unusual places. One such place was Havana, Cuba, where Phillips traveled in the midst of the Cuban Revolution. For the record, Phillips stated that he went to Havana as nothing more than a concerned private individual, with the goal of (and you’ll love it) “fighting for Castro.” Because, as I said, a lot of people in those days went overseas to thwart CIA operations before settling down in Laurel Canyon and joining the “hippie” generation. A few years after Castro came to power, while the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded, for two weeks or so Phillips lolled in Jacksonville, Florida, near (by accident, I’m sure) Mayport Naval Station. nine0003

Anyway, let’s now move on to another of Laurel Canyon’s earliest and brightest stars, Mr. Stephen Stills. Stills will be known as one of the founding members of two of Laurel Canyon’s most famous and beloved bands: Buffalo Springfield, and, of course, Crosby, Stills & Nash. In addition, Stills will write perhaps the first and certainly one of the most enduring anthems of the generation of the 60s, “For What It’s Worth”, the first lines of which are given at the top of this post (Stills’ next single will be called “Blue Bird” (Bluebird ), which, coincidentally or not, is the original codename assigned to the MK-ULTRA program). nine0003

Prior to his arrival in Laurel Canyon, Stephen Stills was (pardon the boring repetition) the product of yet another family of career military men. Raised in part in Texas, young Steven spent most of his childhood in El Salvador, Costa Rica, the Panama Canal Zone, and other parts of Central America with his father, who, we can be sure, helped spread “democracy to the unwashed masses in an affectionate American way. As with the rest of our characters, Stills was educated primarily at military base schools and elite military schools. Among his contemporaries in Laurel Canyon, many considered him a harsh and authoritarian personality. Of course, this is not unusual, as we have already seen with the rest of our characters. nine0003

There is, however, an even more curious aspect of Stephen Stills’ story: Stephen would later tell anyone willing to sit and listen that he served Uncle Sam in the jungles of Vietnam. These stories will be universally dismissed by the chroniclers of the era as nothing more than narcotic ravings. It will be argued that this could not be true, as Stills arrived on the Laurel Canyon scene at the same time that the first uniformed troops began to depart, and he remained in the public eye thereafter. And this, of course, will be quite fair – Stephen Stills could not serve in the form of ground forces in Vietnam, but what will not be taken into account is the indisputable fact that the US had thousands of “advisers”, i.e. CIA / special forces operatives operating in the country many years before the appearance of the first official ground troops. It will also be ignored that, given his experience, his age, and the chronology of events, Stephen Stills was indeed not only able to operate in Vietnam, he would seem to have been a prime candidate for such an appointment. After which, of course, he could quickly become (stop me if you’ve heard this before) an icon for the pacifist generation. nine0003

Another such idol, and one of the brightest residents of Laurel Canyon, is a young man named David Crosby, one of the founding members of Laurel Canyon’s ancestral Byrds, and of course Crosby, Stills & Nash. Crosby is, not surprisingly, the son of Annapolis graduate and World War II military intelligence officer Major Floyd Delafield Crosby. Like many others in this story, after his retirement, Floyd Crosby spent most of his time traveling the world. These travels took him to places like Haiti, which he visited at 1927, when the country had just been occupied (a coincidence, of course) by the US Marines. One of these Marines involved in the occupation was a guy we’ve met before by the name of Captain Claude Andrew Phillips.

But David Crosby is much more than just the son of Major Floyd Delafield Crosby. David Van Cortland Crosby is revealed to be the offspring of the Van Cortland, Van Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families. And while you’re probably thinking, “Family Wang whom?” I can assure you that if you type these names on Wikipedia, you will spend quite a lot of time reading about the power that has been concentrated in the hands of this clan over the past two and a quarter centuries or so. Suffice it to say that Crosby’s family tree includes a truly staggering number of US senators and congressmen, state senators and local legislators, governors, mayors, judges, Supreme Court Justices, Revolutionary and Civil War generals, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and members of the Continental congress. I hasten to add that it also includes (for those of you with a taste for such things) quite a few high-ranking Masons. Stephen Van Rensselaer III, for example, is said to have served as Grand Master Freemason in New York. And if all this isn’t impressive, according to the New England Genealogical Society, David Van Cortland Crosby is also a direct descendant of the Founding Fathers and Federalist authors8 Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. nine0003

If there is, as many believe, a network of elite families that have shaped national and world events for a very long time, then it can probably be said that David Crosby is a blood member of this clan (which might explain, think about it, why in certain circles, his sperm is in such high demand – because, to be honest, of course, not because of his appearance or talent). If there was royalty in America, then David Crosby would probably be a duke or prince or something like that (I’m not very good at this). But other than that, he’s just a normal, ordinary-looking guy, and he just so happens to shine as one of the brightest stars in Laurel Canyon. And I think I should add that he has a great love for firearms, especially pistols, which he has amassed a considerable collection throughout his life. According to his inner circle, it is rare that Mr. Crosby does not carry a pistol with him (John Phillips also has and sometimes carries pistols). And, according to Crosby himself, on at least one occasion, he fired a firearm at another person. Of course, after all this, for the “flower children” he became an obvious choice for the role of an idol. nine0003

Just a few years later, another bright star on the Laurel Canyon scene would be singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, who was (are you getting as bored as I am?) the product of a career military family. Brown’s father was assigned to work in the “reconstruction” of post-war Germany, which most likely means that he was in the service of the OSS9, the predecessor of the CIA. If readers of my Understanding the F-Word will remember, the US involvement in Germany’s post-war reconstruction was mainly to preserve as much of the Nazi infrastructure as possible, while at the same time preventing the arrest and prosecution of war criminals. Against this backdrop, Jackson Browne was born in a military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. About two decades later, he resurfaced as … however, it doesn’t matter anymore. nine0003

Let’s instead talk about three other Laurel Canyon vocalists who would rise to sky-high heights of fame and fortune: Jerry Beckley, Dan Peak and Dewey Bunnell. Individually, these three names are probably not known to almost any reader, but collectively as part of America, the trio would be a huge success in the early 70s with songs like “Ventura Highway” (Ventura Highway) , A Horse With No Name, and the Wizard of Oz-themed The Tin Man. I guess I probably don’t need to add that all three of these guys were products of the military/intelligence community. Beckley’s father was commander of the now-defunct West Ruislip US Air Base in England near London, a facility deeply involved in intelligence operations. Bunnell and Pick’s fathers were both career Air Force officers who served under Father Beckley at West Ruislip, where the three boys first met. nine0003

I also think we could discuss Michael Nesmith of the Monkees and Corey Wells of Three Dog Night (two other hugely successful Laurel Canyon bands), both of whom arrived in LA shortly after their service. in the US Air Force. Nesmith also inherited a family fortune estimated at $25 million. Graham Parsons, who would briefly replace David Crosby in The Byrds before becoming the lead singer of The Flying Burrito Brothers, was the son of Major Cecil Ingram “Koon Dog” Connor II, a decorated officer and bomber pilot, which reportedly had over 50 sorties. On his mother’s side, Parsons was also heir to the impressive fortune of the Snively family. Said to be the wealthiest in Florida’s exclusive Winter Haven enclave, the Snively family owned Snively Groves, Inc.