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Student protests, 1969

1969-10-15 ""The New Prairie Primer"" Page 3

To be against the war in Vietnam and to so nothing about it is indefensible.To see your brother, your school mate, your son or your neighbor's son dragged off to the slaughter or to prison, and do nothing about it is inexcusable. To sit back passively month after month and wait for a Richard Nixon or a Melvin Laird to admit that our country was wrong and that we are going to bring our men home without delay is a transgression of our own reason and humanity. It isn't going to happen until the American people make it happen. That is why we must go to the people. They are sitting there behind those closed doors seething over Vietnam and what it had brought them: death, taxes, inflation, decay and disenchantment. They are waiting for a spark, and that is what we intend to provide.

Personal Accounts:
Draft-Dodger: Emigrating. p. 4
G.I.: Blues. p. 5
Conscientious Objector:
The Sin of Sainthood. p. 6
Resister:
How I Did What I Did. p. 7 
Iowa War Dead. p. 8
Lindberg: Poem. p. 11
Bruno: American Authors on Vietnam. p. 12
Moratorium Activities. p. 14 
Book List. p. 15
Film List. p. 15

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To be against the war in Vietnam and to so nothing about it is indefensible.To see your brother, your school mate, your son or your neighbor's son dragged off to the slaughter or to prison, and do nothing about it is inexcusable. To sit back passively month after month and wait for a Richard Nixon or a Melvin Laird to admit that our country was wrong and that we are going to bring our men home without delay is a transgression of our own reason and humanity. It isn't going to happen until the American people make it happen. That is why we must go to the people. They are sitting there behind those closed doors seething over Vietnam and what it had brought them: death, taxes, inflation, decay and disenchantment. They are waiting for a spark, and that is what we intend to provide. Personal Accounts: Draft-Dodger: Emigrating. p. 4 G.I.: Blues. p. 5 Conscientious Objector: The Sin of Sainthood. p. 6 Resister: How I Did What I Did. p. 7 Iowa War Dead. p. 8 Lindberg: Poem. p. 11 Bruno: American Authors on Vietnam. p. 12 Moratorium Activities. p. 14 Book List. p. 15 Film List. p. 15