Viet Nam
November 27, 2009
- It was a rainy night. The water had been tapping at my window for hours while I wrote. Across the street, the BART trains would whoosh by periodically, leaving clouds of spray that glowed golden as they dissipated past the street lights below. I walked out on to the deck to stretch my muscles and noticed that the night was beginning to clear. I could even see a few stars. Suddenly I ...
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November 20, 2009
- When it began with me.I did my first bit to stop the war in the spring of 1968. However, my actions to end the conflict in Viet Nam were not altogether altruistic or free from self-interest. I had arrived on the campus of Oberlin College the previous September, two weeks shy of my 18th birthday, the benchmark at which all U.S. males of the day were required to register for Selective ...
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