via nytimes.com
Respect your elders."This was the 330th consecutive Wednesday, going back to Jan. 14, 2004, that the grannies gathered for an hour’s demonstration against America’s wars. Agree with their cause or not, theirs is an unusual record of persistence in an age when attention spans are often measured in seconds."
Protester Laurie Arbeiter invoked words ascribed to the Rev. A. J. Muste, a prominent pacifist who died in 1967. During the Vietnam War, he was asked at a candlelight vigil outside the White House if he truly felt that such actions would alter national policy. “I don’t do this to change the country,” he said. “I do this so the country won’t change me.”
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