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November 20, 2009

Vietnam Vet Holds Antiwar Fast Outside White House
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As President Obama mulls a troop increase, a Vietnam War veteran has
launched a fast to oppose an escalation of the Afghan occupation. Thomas
Mahany says he’s been fasting in front of the White House since Veterans
Day. It’s a repeat, he says, of a twenty-nine-day fast he held in 1970
to oppose an escalation of the Vietnam War. In a letter to President
Obama, Mahany urged better mental health treatment for US soldiers. He
continued, “Please end this needless, incessant war making. We have long
ago surpassed humanely reasonable demand exacted upon the fruit of our
middle class as well as wrought excessive death and destruction on
unwitting civilians in foreign lands.”



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