From Jay Belsky, Davis, Calif.: Thank you so much for putting in one place a story that has been neglected—really forgotten—for so long. As a freshman at Georgetown I intended to participate in the shut-down-DC event on May 3—after hearing Rennie Davis speak at the University the night before, reminding the audience about “good Germans” who stood by in the ‘30s and thus became complicit in Hitler’s atrocities. To this very day, perhaps due to my Jewish ancestry, I can still recall the electricity that shot through my body upon hearing those words, convincing me I had no choice but …

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Did you participate in or witness the 1971 antiwar protests in D.C.? Did you demonstrate? Did you end up in jail? Were you there to enforce the law? Tell your story, and read about what other people experienced.

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