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(Mount Clipping in Spoce Below) a ~ - -_ : | ea, “f 7 | — Why T Am Joining the “Phoenix” ee oo oe 4 By Grorcr Larry . a , TF WO of my cousins have already gone to Vietnam as ’ soldiers. Their going has seemed more natural than maine, for it is natural for men to leave their families and go to strange places for the purpose of war, but not for the purpose of peace. (indicate page, name of : newspaper, ¢ity and atate.) . A ee a But how does one explain a leading, except by re- ; counting the symptoms: a tight and burning chest, ‘a , — certainty as great as the cerrainry that 1 exis: at all, a depression as I realize the unsettling this will cause in my — . family and in my work? A Quaker Action Group could — ¢ have decided not to send me, the Upland Institute could have decided not to give me a leave of absence, but J felt Z had no choice about the matter at all. If I remember ; _—__ tay history, Marmaduke Stephenson left his plow in the middle of the field when he sailed to Puritan Massachv- . setts with a group of Friends. - — A divine leading is by definition beyond discussion. , fee my understanding of the world is that there should ; . Points of contact between a leading and reason, be. . cS ee bee . cen a leading and the experience of others, between a leading and the prophetic nadition in religion. Here I p.565 »66-"'Friends should like to explore these points. . _ : 7 —, Journal , Philadelphia, Pa. Why should you engage in this adventure halfway - around the world when you already have made so a 11/1/67 clear your opposition to the war by actions here in a me Vol. 13,No.21 " the United States? " [FS°Seorge Lakey arrances Williams © iter: * 1. Browin Title: ‘Three years ago I wrote letters against the war and woted for “peace candidate” Lyndon Johnson, and the war escalated. Two years ago I lobbied my congressman | and organized demonstrations, and the U. S. tailitarycom- mitment swelled. Last year I sat overlong in the Senate gallery protesting the bombing, and I stopped paying the. - telephone tax, and more napalm killed more of my brothers and sisters. In such a situation should not Friends employ ever more forthright means of exposing a -. the atrocity of this war, even if this means sailing Co , a. _- through the Seventh Fleet to take humanitarian aid oe ae ee directlyto our suffering friends?’ ye ca iesteeemmeenn er ote SE nn a Gt