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| | The Pacifist Memorial |
 | | It dawns on me that I had even once thought of myself as a "pacifist," had acted on those thoughts for nearly a decade. |
 | | And so I begin to think thoughts, and feel feelings, that had somehow gotten buried over the years, buried under real world problems like graduate school, career, finding and fixing and paying for a home, raising kids and paying bills, and the other daily details. |
 | | I remember 1961, marching across the Potomac along with thousands of pacifists, religious leaders and other naive young idealists like me, carrying Ban The Bomb and Student Peace Unions signs, hoping and praying we could convince President Kennedy to stop the open-air-testing of nuclear weapons, then to ban nuclear weapons for ever. |
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