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mhm, mm hmm. We must do everything we can including voting through government. Mhm johnny and get it done. I want to try to relate to you and I don't know if I have the words yet to do it, but it's changed my life and I would

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like someday to be able to find the words are the cradle of our nation. one of the leading authors I saw schools bombed. I saw cathedrals bombed, pagodas, cultural centers, factories. The day I arrived, a cigarette factory and a camera repair factory and a worker's residential

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area was bombed the day I left a candy factory again and a brick factory was bombed. Okay. One of the most peculiar aspects of being an american in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. I would go into villages that have been bombed the day before and talked

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to women whose families have been wiped out. And they would come to me with tears in their eyes and they would take my hand and say thank you. Yeah, tell the people of America the peace loving people of America. Thank you. We're speaking out against the

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war. We are so grateful. Okay find a way thank you to more like portions in the district of Nam Sok and poets and play had been ripped out from under them could approach me and they didn't know from jane fonda. They just new american. Well what

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it will take us years and years. Yeah. Why? Mhm. Yeah. Get ready. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. And so the parade route eventually brought these marchers here to Aquatic Park in North Beach 1500 to 2000 made the March from Civic Center.

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Although this parade was entirely an orderly affair. There was no mistaking the point. These protesters are emphatically against the war and against the administration. But even more than that they are not pro McGovern as one speaker earlier in the day stated the theme of this day

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