Draft resistance to the war in Vietnam shaped many of our lives back many years ago. Of the hundreds of thousands who opposed the brutality of that war and marched, and wrote and sang, and sat-in, Resisters were those willing to go to jail for their opposition, willing to really spend their lives. All of our lives are written as we live them, not just as we express opinions or have high hopes. We become by doing — and these guys did more than most.

What we haven’t done enough of is to continue talking with pride and volume about how they, and many of us, changed a nation and, with others around the world, the world itself. Resistance to war, while still new and weak in people’s core beliefs, is at least on the table, something our Nobel Peace Prize War President had to explain his way around instead of ignoring…. The Los Angeles resistance community met recently to catch up with each other. See Neil Reichline’s photo wall at his Facebook page.

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