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The ’60s generation still has work to do

by Steve Peisch  ·   Friday, April 3, 2026

In the late 1960s, while our country was prosecuting a horrific war in Vietnam, my friends and I asked ourselves, “How can we skip off to college while our less-advantaged brothers sail off to death or dismemberment in a criminal war?” Many of us left our leafy campuses and helped fill the streets of Washington with 300,000 protesters. We helped stop a war that most Americans understand to have been wrong.

We now need to ask ourselves a similar question and then answer it again in the streets, carrying vivid, homemade signs, chanting impolite slogans, and protesting the persecution and murder of innocent people.

To my graying brothers and sisters from the 1960s: Escape the elegant entrapments of retirement and come express yourselves in the streets.

Steve Peisch (high school class of 1969)
Still River Depot Road

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