A 40-Year Memory: Vietnam Protests

In the past five weeks I missed these two significant events in my 40-Year Memory.

October 15 – Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in antiwar demonstrations across the United States.

November 15 – Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000–500,000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".

I was not in Washington for the November 15 march. My college band was supposed to march at a football game that day at Bucknell- and I had written the drill for it. It was called The Spirit of Peace because that was the name of the march I found in the files to write it to. It was to be in honor of the protests that day. Unfortunately, there was bad weather and the band never went.

The drill was used the next week for the final game of the season against our arch-rival, Lafayette.