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I was a student at Columbia in 1968. Today's protests look familiar, but not for the reasons you might think.

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“Protest” (1943-1944), Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan (Slovak, 1898 - 1944).

I've only witnessed one pitched battle in person, and it cured me of any wish to see another. It was not a firefight, like those taking place between American and Vietnamese armies halfway around the world. It was more like the battles described in the Iliad, at that time the first…

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Tom Barson grew up in Oberlin, Ohio and attended college and graduate school in New York City and retired in 2019 as an IT services director for global supply chain projects. He lives in East Lansing, Michigan.
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