Word: marcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed in action or a Vietnamese village destroyed by the war. The candles flickering in the wind, the funereal rolling of drums, the hush over most of the line of march?but above all, the endless recitation of names of dead servicemen and gutted villages as each marcher passed the White House ?were impressive drama: "Jay Dee Richter" . . . "Milford Togazzini" . . . "Vinh Linh, North Viet Nam" . . . "Joseph Y. Ramirez." At the Capitol, each sign was solemnly deposited in one of several coffins, later conveyed back up Pennsylvania Avenue in the Saturday march...
Single file and almost silent, the marchers move across Memorial Bridge, past the drab Navy offices to the White House, and on to the Capitol. Each marcher carries a candle and a placard with the name of an American soldier killed...
Earl Patterson and Patrick Haggerty. They are dead. Some marchers get Vietnamese villages to shout out. Dead villages, Marchers can also request the name of a dead relative. Whatever is dead, the marcher shouts the name at the White House, which isn't listening-unless some supersensitive bug hidden in the glare of the light records all the marchers' voice prints for future reference...
...Freedom Marcher...
...Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd, authors of Middletown and Middletown in Transition, both classic sociological studies of a small city in the 1920s and 1930s. Staughton, now 38, is best known as editor of the book Nonviolence in Amer ica and as a confirmed peace marcher and self-appointed citizen-envoy to North Viet Nam. He seems to be acting out his own role in a contemporary sequel to his parents' books that might be called Middletown in Revolt...