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Thirty-five members of the Nonviolent Direct Action Group plan to distribute leaflets concerning he GI's rights and the Indochina war at Ft. Devens, in Ayer, Mass., this afternoon. The action does not have the required approval of he base Provost Marshal...
...used to think that war was Henry Fonda shooting it out behind a water trough on a dusty Wyoming street. Or Achilles chasing Hector around Troy. So the only way that I have been able to understand the war in Vietnam is to pretend, each time a GI or a Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Vietnamese have been killed and probably 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest...
...there was a rally in front of the Sheraton-Cleveland, and members of the SMC-YSA group, as well as a GI and a labor union leader, addressed the crowd. After awhile, a group broke off from the main demonstration of about 2000 people, and marched over to the city hall. About 300 people took part in this, the demonstration that SDS had been planning. The crowd gathered on the front steps of the city hall- which was closed- and listened to several speeches. About a dozen police cars filled with helmeted policemen lined the streets near the city hall...
...used to think that war was Henry Fonda shooting it out behind a water trough on a dusty Wvoming street. Or Achilles chasing Hector around Troy. So the only way that I have been able to understand the war in Vietnam is to pretend, each time a GI or a Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Viet-????? 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest that much sorrow...
...writing letters and lobbying congressmen if you must, but act. Act with the danger of the GI and the sacrifice of the resister in mind and act as forcefully as your outrage dictates. Make today more meaningful by resolving that because of your efforts there won't be 5000 more to mourn for on the next Memorial...