GOING She was going to perform for recovering soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, but instead singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she was told to take a hike. The 66-year-old folk singer revealed her feelings about the incident in a recent letter to the Washington Post. In it she wrote that she doesn’t know why she was not allowed to perform for the injured soldiers. “I have always been an advocate for nonviolence and I have stood as firmly against the Iraq war as I did the Vietnam War 40 years ago,” she wrote. “I realize now … Continue reading →