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Originally Posted by DougB
Protested at the Republican Convention in Miami Beach in 1972. Got gassed by the police. Also participated in a "sit-in at the "U". I think that was about the same year.
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Soon after the convention things fired up in Miami. I was involved with the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War). We demonstrated outside the Veterans hospital. Chained ourselves to the fence. Marched in protest against the war and to impeach Nixon.
We were permanently banned from Homestead Air Force base for passing out info leaflets in the enlisted barracks.
I had the FBI knock on my door and the agent asked me about one of our leaders.
Three years later, I was a member of "the establishment" as a civil servant/first responder.