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	Norman Morrison
		Norman Morrison, a devout Quaker and father of three, immolated himself outside of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's office at the Pentagon.
		In a society where it is normal for human beings to drop bombs on human targets, where it is normal to spend 50 percent of the individual's tax dollar on war, where it is normal...to have twelve times overkill capacity, Norman Morrison was not normal.
		Norman included the article in a letter he wrote to his wife before leaving for the Pentagon.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/protest/morr.html (1189 words)

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		Morrison decided to bring his experience back home to Calhoun County, Alabama.
		Some are local, but most are made by "out of town" people who neither know nor love the area.
		The goal of GetCalhoun.com is to present an interesting and low cost way for business to present itself to local residents, a place where folks can interact with businesses and each other, and a great window on Calhoun County, Alabama for the rest of the nation...and the world.
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	Northern Police Federation
		The founding father figure of the Scottish Police Federation, Norman Morrison, was a native of this Force area whose story makes fascinating reading.
		He joined the City of Glasgow Police when he was 19 years old, then served in the Argyll County Police for 30 years cramming more than the normal lifetime of experience with dedicated service to the community and the police.
		The Scottish Police Federation recognised Norman Morison's contribution to present day officers by the creation of Norman Morison Memorial Fund Bursary for natives of the Island of Lewis attending the University of Glasgow and with a dedicated plaque also in place at Shawbost Primary school.
	www.northernpolicefederation.com /history.shtml (268 words)

	Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 070911
		William Sumner Appleton and Norman Morrison Isham, 2007.
		Different theorists have addressed this issue as they have also sought to motivate the movement for the preservation of the worthy and the important.
		This paper examines how two such theorists with somewhat different approaches to the subject are William Sumner Appleton and Norman Morrison Isham, both of whom left writings on the subject as well as took action in furtherance of their goals and their idea of the need for preservation.
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay/10.html (3366 words)

	The Geelong College - College Community (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A typical scene—and one which describes him as nothing else can—is that of Norman Morrison, the principal of a great public school, in the dormitory with the small boys after lights were supposed to be out, romping and playing, and engaging in surreptitious feasts from hidden stores of good things.
		Norman, however, was not one of those to neglect his studies, and he passed his second year arts in 1885, taking his third year and the degree of B.A. in 1886.
		Norman Morrison was then in sole command of the College, and he saw clearly that if its future were to be as bright as its past it must become a public school.
	www.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au /com_archives_50_05.html (2236 words)

	Norman Morrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman Morrison (December 29, 1933 - November 2, 1965), born in Erie, Pennsylvania, was a Quaker best known for committing suicide by self-immolation at age 31 to protest the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
		Morrison's widow and two daughters (Ben had died of cancer years earlier) visited Vietnam in 1999 where they met with To Huu, the poet who had written the popular Emily, My Child.
		Morrison's death was a tragedy not only for his family but also for me and the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Morrison (409 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Van Morrison (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Morrison later admitted he wasn't pleased with the results, claiming in a Rolling Stone interview in 1969, "It came out wrong and they released it without my consent." Recordings from these sessions were occasionally re-released by Bang and in bootleg form, under various names.
		Morrison still remains popular with the public; his latest album, Magic Time debuted at #25 on the US Billboard charts upon release in May 2005, some 40 years after first entering the public's eye as the frontman of Them.
		Morrison's influence can be readily seen in the music of many major artists, including U2 (much of The Unforgettable Fire), Bruce Springsteen ("Spirit in the Night", "Backstreets"), Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Patti Smith (her poetic-proto-punk "Gloria" most explicitly), Graham Parker, Thin Lizzy, Dexys Midnight Runners, and numerous others.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Van_Morrison (2553 words)

	Morrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Morrison was a merchant ship which attempted to visit Japan in 1837 but was driven away: see Morrison Incident
		The USS Morrison was a Fletcher-class destroyer sunk in the Pacific in 1945.
		Morrison (2000), which ruled that the Violence Against Women Act was unconstitutional
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morrison (300 words)

	Political Suicide
		Morrison was married and the father of three children: Ben, 6 years old; Tina, 5; and Emily, 1; who was with her father when he ignited himself, but she escaped unharmed.
		Morrison had heard her husband express his distress over a Catholic priest's account of a bombing in a North Vietnam village, the Quakers disclosed.
		Morrison was born on Dec. 29, 1933, in Erie, Pa. He was graduated from the Chautauqua High School, in Chautauqua, N.Y., in 1952.
	www.leinsdorf.com /political_suicide.htm (1689 words)

	Toni Morrison - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
		Morrison was appointed Robert F. Goheen Professor of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University in the spring of 1989.
		Morrison was also a senior editor at Random House for twenty years.
		Toni Morrison has earned a reputation as a gifted storyteller whose troubled characters seek to find themselves and their cultural riches in a society that warps or impedes such essential growth.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000023203,00.html (402 words)

	Norman Morrison Information
		Norman Morrison (December 29, 1933 - November 2, 1965), born in Erie, Pennsylvania, was a Quaker best known for committing suicide by self-immolation at age 31 to protest the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
		Morrison's widow and two daughters (Ben had died of cancer years earlier) visited Vietnam in 1999 where they met with To Huu, the poet who had written the popular Emily, My Child.
		Morrison's death was a tragedy not only for his family but also for me and the country.
	norman-morrison.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Norman_Morrison (533 words)

	About Emily
		Her husband, Norman Morrison, who served as executive secretary of a Quaker community in Baltimore, was home sick with a cold.
		Anne recalls that she was "in complete shock" after Norman's death, but her sudden lone responsibility for three young children and the publicity around the event kept her from finding space and time to grieve well.
		Norman's action didn't stop the war, but Anne believes it brought the war home and conveyed to the Vietnamese people that there were individuals here who cared deeply about their suffering.
	home.fuse.net /hopespringsemily/AboutEmily.html (1027 words)

	Requiem for a Forgotten Hero
		Norman Morrison died 40 years ago this November in Washington DC by self-immolation.
		Morrison tried to stop it altogether by a single, excruciatingly painful act of self-sacrifice.
		Morrison may have only sought to change the mind of one powerful man, while pricking the conscience of a country.
	www.strike-the-root.com /52/herman/herman4.html (799 words)

	I908: Captain Alexander MORRISON (1717 - 28 JAN 1805)
		Alexander Morrison, who was born in 1717, followed his father's profession, and was also tacksman of Skinidin.
		Dr. Morrison was married to Elizabeth MacLeod, said to have been a daughter of the Rev. Alexander MacLeod, minister of St. Kilda.
		By her he had issue: (1) Norman, of whom afterwards; (2) John, who attained the rank of General in the American Army; (3) son, whose name is unknown; (4) another son, whose name is unknown; (5) Margaret; (6) Jean; (7) Mary, who married Donald Shaw from Duirinish, Skye.
	www.macleodgenealogy.org /ACMS/D0005/I908.html (354 words)

	Texas Horsemen's Partnership Home Page
		Norman R. Morrison was born on March 25, 1936, in Gorman, Texas to parents Albert Cottrell, Jr.
		Norman was preceded in death by both of his parents and an infant son, Jerry Glenn Morrison.
		Norman Morrison is survived and lovingly remembered by his wife, Nelda; one daughter, Glenda and husband, Butch Knight of Breckenridge; and one son, Bob Morrison and wife, Kristi of Graham.
	www.texashorsemen.com /news/news_NMorrison.asp (626 words)

	ANGELIZD's Place - Norman Patrick Morrison
		With the strength the Lord gave him, Norman sang a song called “Music of A Baby’s Cry” about Carly’s miracle at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco he also sang, "The King Is Coming" and "Oh I Trust You Lord", which the Lord gave him the night before the funeral.
		Norman began to have dreams, sent to him by the Lord.
		Norman contacted an old friend who had a recording system and the friend offered to produce his music for this project.
	www.angelizdsplace.com /norman.htm (452 words)

	Norman Patrick Morrison - I Am Yours Lord (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Norman's vocals and guitar are complemented superbly by the many talents of one tk ("teek"), in particular the electric guitar riffs and solos.
		Norman has come on a long way since the days when he used to write a new song every time that he learned a new chord.
		Norman's music is uplifting and you can feel his love for the Lord with every word.
	www.crossrhythms.co.uk /products/Norman_Patrick_Morrison/I_Am_Yours_Lord/22526 (440 words)

	Norman Morrison
		Available records indicate Morrison was silversmith, and Bull, businessman of the firm.
		Morrison was lost at sea in 1783 and in 1788 Caleb Bull married his widow.
		Norman married Abigail Chauncy, daughter of Nathaniel Chauncy and Mary Stocking, on 28 Jun 1778 in Hartford CT. (Abigail Chauncy was born on 15 Sep 1756 in Middlebury CT and died on 30 Sep 1799 in East Hartford CT.)
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~silversmiths/makers/silversmiths/29111.htm (143 words)

	Self Immolation - People Who Set Themselves On Fire
		Although Norman Morrison receives much more media recognition, he actually was not the first American to immolate him/herself in protest to the Vietnam War.
		There are several similarities between Alice Herz and Norman Morrison that are worth noting.
		LaPorte, 22, immolated himself outside the United Nations building in New York City on November 9, 1965, one week after Norman Morrison did the same outside of the Pentagon.
	francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews2/selfimmolation.htm (2442 words)

	Viet Nam News
		On 2 November 1965, Norman Morrison held his second daughter and third child, Emily, in his arms as he stood below the window of the Pentagon office used by US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
		Norman Morrison’s widow, Anne Morrison, had not known of her husband’s plans.
		Norman Morrison seems to have kept his act of conscience in private confidence between his own soul and his spiritual source.
	vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn /showarticle.php?num=06WAR010505 (1139 words)

	Movie Info for Danger Ahead on MSN Movies
		Minot and her son, Norman (James Morrison), from the Boston social set.
		Tressie falls in love with Norman, but the fortune-hunting Della Mayhew (Emily Rait) comes to board, and she tries to force her own daughter, Dora (Helene Caverly), on the young man. Meanwhile, artist Robert Kitteridge (Jack Mower), a friend of Norman's, makes a play for Tressie himself.
		Norman finally tracks Tressie to the studio and he fetches her.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=11284 (205 words)

	Aboard the Norman Morison
		Once on board the Norman Morison they were shown to their quarters for the journey -- a journey they were to share with 144 other passengers, the remainder of whom joined the ship two days later.
		The winds were enough to help the new northerly direction of the Norman Morison as she headed back towards warmer climates.
		The log reports that on the 5th: "The infant daughter of Robert and Jessie M Anderson was christened Eliza Norman Wishart Anderson by Captain Wishart." Eliza was born the day after the Andersons boarded the Norman Morison, in Gravesend back in August.
	users.powernet.co.uk /flewin/stories/canemi.htm (1891 words)

	Noted writers warn of books' decline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		America's literary tradition is in peril, said Toni Morrison, Norman Mailer and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the 56th annual National Book Awards ceremony, an event that brings out the leaders of the publishing industry to honor the best books of the year.
		Morrison, who received the same honor as Mailer in 1996, introduced him as a writer who "was often wrong but always engaged, a true original" and whose books are a critical piece of the history of American literature in the 20th century.
		The image of the powerful Morrison draping the medal around his neck symbolized for just an instant the broad and creative diversity those two writers represent in American literature.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05322/608269.stm (666 words)

	The Pacifists - TIME
		At 5:15 one afternoon last week, Norman Morrison, 31, his clothing doused in kerosene and his youngest child, 18-month-old Emily, cradled in his arms, stood outside the river entrance to the Pentagon and burned himself to death.
		Morrison's self-immolation, his wife Anne soon explained, expressed "his concern over the great loss of life and human suffering caused by the war in Viet Nam.
		Morrison was born in Erie, Pa.; when he was 13, his widowed mother moved the family to Chautauqua, N.Y., where he became the first youth in the county to win the Boy Scouts' God and Country Award.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,834576,00.html (574 words)

	A Desperate Measure (News) Elizabeth Oliver
		Two years later, an American Quaker named Norman Morrison lit himself on fire in front of the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War.
		As his wife, Anne Morrison Welsh, recounted in the January 2000 Winds of Peace (pdf file) newsletter, when news of his act reached Vietnam, the people there found a hero in him.
		Though news of Ritscher's act seems not to have generated such widespread reflection, it has stirred strong emotions in Chicago, especially among those frequenting the venues and protests where he was a regular fixture.
	www.utne.com /webwatch/2006_275/news/12342-1.html (390 words)

	Philadelphia Independent Media Center \| Reflections on Norman Morrison by Catharine P. Thomas
		Norman kept to himself the overwhelming mission he suddenly felt called to that day.
		He did not say whether Norman was dead or not and I did not ask; I knew intuitively that he was.
		Norman Morrison became a national hero in Vietnam, and his burning was one of the deciding factors that turned MacNamara against the war, in the end.
	www.phillyimc.org /en/2006/11/33096.shtml (2356 words)

	DOC -- Dr. Morrison
		Norman Morrison, MD Norman G. Morrison, MD F.A.C.S. nmorrison@doc-online.org
		Dr. Morrison is an Attending Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Harlem Hospital Center, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, and North General Hospital in New York City.
		Morrison runs a private practice in New York City and is Co-Founder and Vice President of Doctors On Call.Dr. Morrison lives in New Jersey with his family.
	www.doc-online.org /doc_morrison.html (123 words)

	Self Immolation - People Who Set Themselves On Fire
		Although Norman Morrison receives much more media recognition, he actually was not the first American to immolate him/herself in protest to the Vietnam War.
		There are several similarities between Alice Herz and Norman Morrison that are worth noting.
		LaPorte, 22, immolated himself outside the United Nations building in New York City on November 9, 1965, one week after Norman Morrison did the same outside of the Pentagon.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews2/selfimmolation.htm (2442 words)

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