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First Objective. Washingtonians had long since become inured to peace demonstrations, but they had never seen anything quite like the week of antiwar guerrilla theater staged by Viet Nam veterans as a prelude to Saturday's march. The sponsors called it Operation Dewey Canyon III, "a limited incursion into the country of Congress," in mocking echo of official U.S. military jargon. They numbered as many as 1,500 veterans, wearing fatigues with the shoulder patches of the 1st Air Cav, the 101st Airborne, the 1st MarDiv, the 25th Infantry, the Big Red One. They wore long hair and beards...
...platoon-strength group staged a "search and destroy" raid on the Capitol steps, rounding up a collection of girls in coolie hats, shouting, "Kill the gooks!" and splattering the scene with red paint. Congress was the veterans' chief target. As John Kerry, leader of Dewey Canyon III, won warm applause for his testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (see box, following page), knots of other veterans buttonholed Senators and Representatives. One constituent of Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney complained: "He gerrymandered me out of his district on the spot." Another group found itself riding the Senate subway with...
...Operation Dewey Canyon III, an assault on "the country of Congress, a limited incursion for the purpose of severing supply lines being utilized by the illegal mercenary forces of the Executive Branch." The parody of military jargon is skillful, and with good reason: D.C. Ill will be carried out by a brigade of 5,000 Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. The veterans will mount one of the most elaborate antiwar protests of the spring. Dressed in fatigues and battle ribbons and carrying plastic M-16 rifles, they will "occupy" Washington for five days, holding a memorial service at Arlington...
...this is reminiscent of progressive education in the late 1920s, when a wave of eccentric schools were founded to carry out the earnest theories of John Dewey and other educational philosophers. Free schools, though, are motivated less by ideology than by despair with public education. Sensing that despair, in fact, some big public school systems are creating their own versions of free schools. Philadelphia's Parkway School, for example, holds classes not in a school building but in museums and business establishments around the city...
Early Sunday morning O'Brien stood with 200 New England veterans behind the MBTA car barns waiting for rides to this week's Vietnam veterans antiwar rally in Washington- Dewey Canyon...