{"id":29293,"date":"2013-07-25T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=29293"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:33:31","slug":"gbyoung2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29293","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Guy Young"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Rex Morningstar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s been an extreme pleasure to be here today, and emotional, to say the least.\u00a0 Lot of members\u2019 names I\u2019ve forgotten, but when I look into your eyes, I get a picture of the last time I saw you. We were 30-some odd years younger. Didn\u2019t we look good?<\/p>\n

Laughter<\/p>\n

Young:<\/strong> And we look good now. I thought I heard an \u201cAmen\u201d on that.<\/p>\n

I think it was last year \u2013 my nose is running, excuse me \u2013 I wrote a poem entitled \u201cMona.\u201d She was the adopted daughter of Christine Cobb Young, my wife, and a sister to all the Cobbs to say the least, and we loved her dearly, and I\u2019d like to dedicate this to out family that\u2019s no longer with us, but in our hearts and to all the children that are gone and all the children that are now coming ,\u00a0 because one day hopefully they will see justice and equality and love that we all dream and work for. And as I said, the title of the poem is \u201cMona.\u201d<\/p>\n

You came to us,
\nbattered and bruised,
\nyour ebony marred and scarred,
\nwe bathed you in love and affection,
\nyou healed and blossomed.<\/p>\n

You called us Mommy and Daddy,
\nyou brightened our lives and warmed our souls,
\nyou laughed and played in joy.
\nYou joined mom and family in Jonestown.
\nYou brightened their lives and warmed their souls,
\nand you laughed and played in joy.<\/p>\n

While praising the virtues of Jonestown here,
\nall were perishing there,
\nlife, loss so near and far.
\nOft I wonder why I linger on,
\nyear after year, day by day, day after day,
\nlonging to hear you call me Daddy,
\nlonging to hear you laughing and playing in joy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

(Guy Young<\/strong> was a former member of Peoples Temple. He died<\/a> on August 16, 2025.)<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been an extreme pleasure to be here today, and emotional, to say the least.\u00a0 Lot of members\u2019 names I\u2019ve forgotten, but when I look into your eyes, I get a picture of the last time I saw you. We were 30-some odd years younger. Didn\u2019t we look good? Laughter Young: And we look good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":29509,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29293","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29293"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131710,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29293\/revisions\/131710"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}