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...Greg Aller suffer unnecessarily for the sake of science...
...morning of April 15, 1987, as he studied for his college entrance exams, Gregory Aller had his first visit from the aliens. "This brilliant white light appeared," Aller, now 29, recalls. "Space aliens were directing this. They told me I was going to become Speaker of the House. Then President Bush and Vice President Quayle would die. As President, I would unite our world with a dying alien planet whose sun was going...
This is a glimpse into the past -- the fall of 1969 -- and into the lives of two Americans abroad, Frank Aller and Bill Clinton. I shared with them a sparsely furnished row house in Oxford. Frank was there to learn about Chinese history and culture; Bill's field, not surprisingly, was political science. But in addition to our formal studies, we were enrolled in a permanent, floating, teacherless seminar on Vietnam. Like many of our contemporaries, we felt that the war was profoundly wrong. Many of us had to decide what to do if we were ordered by our government...
...housemate Frank Aller, another Rhodes scholar, from Spokane, Wash., had come to a decision. He would resist the draft. He would become a fugitive from his own country. Clinton and Aller talked endlessly about the choices that were closing in on them. The conversations were urgent and anguished -- and by no means theoretical. Toward the end of 1969, the number of Americans killed in Vietnam climbed past...
...Frank Aller, the housemate who resisted the draft, would become a casualty nonetheless. After living for a time as a fugitive in England, he returned home to try to sort out his life. Not long afterward, he shot himself...