[Peace-discuss] FW: 1968: Dr. Benjamin Spock's indictment for urging young men to resist the Vietnam draft - The Washington Post

[Boyle, Francis A]

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Subject: 1968: Dr. Benjamin Spock's indictment for urging young men to resist the Vietnam draft - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/05/he-was-americas-most-famous-pediatrician-then-dr-spock-attacked-the-vietnam-draft/?utm_term=.ac3c1bf090b7
Ben Spock, M.D.

Managua, Nicaragua, 1985
With Ramsey Clark and Len Weinglass (RIP) To help Nicaraguans Against Reagan's contra terrorists

After day of hard work return to hotel
Sitting on veranda sipping soft drinks
Ben Spock and his Wife
Bringing Humanitarian relief supplies
At own expense

Sit down to talk
Most dramatic meeting
Ramsey persecuted Ben
Draft Resistance Conspiracy
We all knew 

The Empire put on trial
America's Baby Doctor
For saving his Baby Boomers
>From Abattoir of Vietnam

Conversation pleasant but tense
Ben vindicated by History
Against Ramsey and LBJ and Hershey
We all knew
Ben gracious too

After Spocks depart
Ramsey turns to Len and me
Anguishly
It was the worst decision
I ever made
In my entire life
Prosecuting that man!

We all make our mistakes
Ramsey and me
Learn from them hopefully

Here's to Ben Spock, M.D.
Right from very get-go
Doctor for my Woodstock Generation
My hero!
Long may he live
In annals of history!
RIP