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purity of the organization, the attendees all for the purity of the day itself. i remember a day somewhat like this for more than half a century ago. it was the historic march on the pentagon of october 1967. what the two events shared was an optimism. and back then it was the hope that the big demonstration against the war in vietnam two years after u.s. combat troops were sent into the fighting would have an effect. it didn t. not really. within months, the military high command would be asking for 200,000 more troops on top of the 500,000 already in vietnam. it would be six more years until the u.s. announced its departure from the war. each one of those years adding to the bitterness of those opposed to johnson s and later nixon s policies. but i will always recall the optimism of that early protest against vietnam. it was in my mind on saturday as i saw the same optimism in the faces of those hoping to end this country s fidelity to gun power. let s hope the young people of saturd

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