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"When U.S. Activist Set Himself on Fire to Protest a War" "The wars in Iraq an Afghanistan were notably, and tragically, absent as campaign issues this autumn. Street demonstrations? Very scattered. Various forms of protest continue online but it's a long way from the heated Vietnam era. Today, in fact, marks the 41st anniversary of the largest mass antiwar march ever, the November 15, 1969, demo in Washington, D.C., which I attended as a college student. But this month marks another notable anniversary in the annals of Vietnam protest: the day Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker from Baltimore handed his infant daughter off to a bystander, doused himself with kerosene and set himself ablaze under Pentagon chief Robert McNamara's window at the Pentagon." Now THAT,is hard-core.
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"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals" President Obama
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