Cohousing-L Mailing List: Rituals & Ribbons

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> If memory serves, someone had the bright idea of playing "Tie a Yellow
> Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" on the radio in memory of the US embassy
> hostages held in Iran in 1980.  Others decided to concretize the thought
> by tying actual ribbons around anything that would hold still, and
> eventually, people started wearing yellow ribbons.  I think it pretty much
> lay fallow until around 1990 when people started wearing red ribbons for
> AIDS awareness.  Then pink for breast cancer, and then it began to
> multiply exponentially.

That's what I remember too.

Sharon.

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