William Poy Lee displays 4 uniforms of the militias constituting the major bands of youth who set out to trash the Chinese New Year celebration of 1969. He also describes the original '60s buttons on each uniform. His reading narrates his own participation in the first modern Chinese American civil rights march, its failure to bridge the gap between the Old Guard Chinese Six Companies and the new Vanguard of activists and organizers, and the subsequent violence that tore' up the community through the 1970s.