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Incorrigible Peacenik

Dean Landsman, Vietnam war reminiscing: "A few months earlier I'd been at the very lead of a peace rally, carrying one side of a big flag with a peace sign. It was a peaceful early evening candlelight rally, although violence loomed large, everywhere one looked along the rally parade route, in the ranks of the Indianapolis Police Department Riot Squad. This group of helmeted and armed policemen, with their gear cocked and ready for battle, were an almost humorous counterpoint to our calm and underwhelming pro-peace demonstration."

"The rally came and went without incident. Some of the Riot Squad police looked pretty frustrated over the lack of incident, as they shed their gear, packed it in, got in their squad cars and drove off."

"Later that evening as I was heading back to my dorm room, a drunken hawkish upperclassmen sucker-punched me, then proceeded to beat the shit out of me for being an 'anti American commie pinko faggot New York jewfuck.' To this day I still recall him calling me this long epithet."

[via Doc]