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...Begin." The mere thought of the National Guard serving in any sort of civil-defense capacity while other American soldiers were fighting elsewhere was enough to bring bellows of rage from doughty Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 66, longtime president of the National Guard Association. Walsh knew that behind Hannah's faint praise lay basic distrust of the peacetime Guard: Hannah is convinced that many Guard outfits are shot through with political officers, overaged officers, incompetents, and youths who joined up to avoid the draft. Challenged Walsh: "If they want war, let it begin here."* Then he really...
...held Furash, while several other grabbed Ellard. Then one assailant threatened Ellard and told him what he'd do, if he, Ellard, weren't wearing glasses. Furash broke loose and fled up the stairs yelling for the police. Several minutes later, he returned with a detachment of Cambridge police, who were stopping a near-riot in a Harvard Square restaurant...
When the police arrived, Ellard was bleeding badly from a head wound. He was taken to Lehman Hall and turned over to the Harvard police, who took him to Stillman Infirmary...
...Ellard's scalp wound was only superficial. Nurses patched him up and released Stillman's only New Year's Eve patient an hour later...
...group had followed Furash and Ellard onto the subway at Boylston St. and crowded around them, preventing their exit from the Harvard station. After "brow-beating" the boys, the group started to have when one of the on-lookers shouted, "hit 'em one for good measure." Ellard fought back, but was injured when one of the assailants hit him from behind. Furash escaped uninjured...