Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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15 My Sense Of Duty I had to go on October 15th. Although I had never been in a demonstration, I then felt the need to be counted as a student against the war. For too long I had heard the cries of grief stricken mothers and seen people dead or dying on the news every night. There was no point to the war and no end. Soon the men I see in school every day will be called to kill a man they have no quarrel with. The women must stay home and wonder if they will ever see their brothers or husbands again. For me march- ing was an easy act, killing will be a hard one. The choice is mine.

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14 You who build the alters now to sacrifice these children you must not do it anymore. Leonard Cohen

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16 How Far Have We Gotten? I didn’t go! Why? Because I feel that demonstrations are being worn to the bone. If you don’t agree, . . Then demonstrate! I also feel that it is time we sat down and started thinking of new and effective ways of negotiating righteous causes. In a demon- stration you can walk your shoes down to your nails, and what do you get? Sore feet ! Sometimes I must say, I feel, that maybe some violence is definetly going to erupt before the peace battle is won. Why? Be- cause for every drastic profitable change that has occurred for or within this country, it has some type of violence involved. It’s sad, and maybe that is the reason the people are trying for a peaceful way for peace But as long as you have the majority saying. “We should be in Vietnam in honor of our Country,” I feel this makes a demonstration in my opinion, outdated ... it has served it’s purpose. How can you support a country that was founded on peace, and now is killing people they don’t even know. It seems that America must stand up to its traditional feeling of “fight for what you want”. . .in a revised form.