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50 Years Later, 'Catonsville 9' Burning of Vietnam Draft Notices Continues to Inspire
From the article:
Fifty years ago today—on May 17, 1968 in the small town of Catonsville, Maryland—nine Catholic Worker and anti-war activists made history, and inspired a wave of popular resistance, for their stance against the Vietnam War as they used homemade napalm to torch a pile of draft notices they had seized from the local federal office.
"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house," declared Father Daniel Berrigan in 1968 as he explained the group's action. "We could not, so help us God, do otherwise."
"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house," declared Father Daniel Berrigan in 1968 as he explained the group's action. "We could not, so help us God, do otherwise."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/17/50-years-later-catonsville-9-burning-vietnam-draft-notices-continues-inspire?utm_term=50%20Years%20Later%2C%20%27Catonsville%209%27%20Burning%20of%20Vietnam%20Draft%20Notices%20Continu