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— “sures et be Lhe A Ben .citisens and (riends, | 200 pe ars i 78 a brave revolutionary woman s our flag that we honor on June lith, The flag Betsy Ross designed was to national ensign for a new and promising nation, free of religious and poli persecution, In thé years following the fmerican Revolution, parts of whic fought in our community, this flag represented freedom from tyranny and the beginnings of a democratic society unequalled in history. Today, some of us‘are beginning to fear a new tyranny that hides behir flag designed 200 years aso. Creed for wealth, Rower and control seem to ¢ mnotivetion for fighting new wars, In the name of-bringing "PEACE" and "FRE to Vietnam, the lives of 50,COO0 American men have been lost. Over THREE Mi Indochinese hare been killed, wourdéed or made refugees, 3,OCCTONS cf bombs Gropped eech day, In one week 24,000 TONS of tombs are dropped creating ar additional 10,000 killed or wounded Vietnamese people) This weekly average equivaient to the blast at Eiroshima; every minute an average of two tons o bombs are dropped, These actions have brought neither peace ner freedom, — goveriment supported by the U,5, in Southern Vietnam remains corrupt and ha suspended most of the civil liberties of the people reled by Nguyen Van Thi In this country more than 73% of the people want an immediate end to t wasteful wer, yet the President still increeses the bombings. Rromising a “Generetion of Peace" and economic stacility, he has only made the economy 1 Gependcent on the war which increases the cost of living and increases devas in Southeast Asia, Because cf the goverrment's priority of epending on the war; health cere, child care, and envirommertr.? prvjects go unfunded or are drastically slashed, Many of us in this eccormunity are Toreed, by economic necessity ‘to work at war related jobs (no other ones are available). Altho against the war, we are tied to it. This is the new tryanny~-a denial of freedom of choicef] ; + ae Monmouth - County CONTIG | SUNDAY: COMMUNITY OIC}