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spazzmann

(748 posts) Sat Sep 1, 2012, 12:03 PM Sep 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on September 1, 1986

Angelo (Charlie) Liteky & George Mizo, both Vietnam veterans, began an open-ended Fast For Life on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. They were calling attention to their opposition to U.S. support of the Nicaraguan contras and repressive regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala . . . continued > http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm

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Today in Peace and Justice history on September 1, 1986 (Original Post) spazzmann Sep 2012 OP

Thank you for the history reminders lunatica Sep 2012 #1

Thanks for the flashback pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #2

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

1. Thank you for the history reminders

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Sat Sep 1, 2012, 12:06 PM

Sep 2012

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

2. Thanks for the flashback

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Sat Sep 1, 2012, 12:20 PM

Sep 2012

I joined with Charlie and George, and Brian Willson, in their Veterans for Peace chapter around that time. My involvement was brief, though, as I became busy with another Vietnam vets' group doing a tutoring program for war refugee kids from Nicaragua and El Salvador. Interesting times...

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