Amazing Photo: Hurricane does not deter guards at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[pinboy3niner]

325. "(C)eremonies for those who accepted shaming and jail time for resisting the draft"?

You're kidding, right? You can't seriously be comparing that to those who died in combat.

I was interning on Capitol Hill when President Jimmy Carter granted unconditional pardon to draft dodgers, and I wrote my Congressman's press release explaining the order.

Years later, I was one of the Vietnam vets invited to speak to a high school class taught by a man who'd gone to jail for refusing his draft induction.

The back wall of that teacher's classroom had 'VIETNAM' spelled out in 3-foot high letters. The letters, we discovered, were made of 58,000 straightpins he'd had his students spend five minutes each day putting in.

The folowing year, we arrived to find on the classroom wall a collage of 58,000 faces cut from magazine photos.

Yes, some people get it. Even some convicted, incarcerated, pacifist draft dodgers...