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to use a gun to override that decision. When people
take it into their own hands and kill men like Martin
Luther King Jr. and Senator Kennedy, they are really
attacking the very democracy we believe in.”

I thought of all of those things when I saw the
flag, and I knew that we were at the protest to which
Daniel wanted to go. But what confused me the most
was how upset Dad was about it. I knew he didn’t
agree with us being in the Vietnam War. He often
called it “the politicians’ war.”

John was almost old enough to be drafted, and
that scared my dad. Dad said we shouldn’t be fighting
over there, and he cussed the politicians for getting us
into it. When I asked him why, he said, “We can’t help
people who not only don’t want our help but despise us
for it. We have no right to pressure others into our way
of life, especially those who are neither ready to live
under a democratic government nor want it. Even if we
consider our way of life to be the best in the world, it is

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