I am not entirely sure why your son’s friend hauled the cement from San Diego to SD (South Dakota?). It sounds like he was trying to put one over on the government by shipping items not part of his Household Goods. Below is a topic I Posted almost two-years ago that the military does not take kindly to this type of fraud…
I lived those times and I was a hippy, I had long hair, I wore bell-bottoms, I did drugs, and I attended two wild, drug strummed concerts, one Strawberry Fields Festival at Mosport Park, North of Torento, Canada, and the second one in Powder Ridge, Connecticut. That one was wild, it got shut down after one day and the State Troopers come in on Horseback and tried to chase the folks out. It did not work, but it stopped the music… I lived outside Albany, New York then and the next big concert was suppose to be Woodstock, but the authorities threatened to shut it down too. So we did not bother to go…
So, I know that culture, they were “my people…” and it was best be described as “Counter-culture…” “Make Love, Not War, Don’t Bogart that Joint, Groovy, Far-out, Out-of-sight, and I Kept-on-Truckin’…”
But my “other people”, my family, all immigrants, all naturalized citizens, held a special love to America, all had served, and I felt I had to also, so I did…