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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Wed Dec 26, 2012, 11:43 AM Dec 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on December 26, 1971

Two dozen members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War "liberated" the Statue of Liberty with a sit-in to protest resumed U.S. aerial bombings in Vietnam. They flew an inverted U.S. flag from the crown as a signal of distress. http://bit.ly/TYXBC2

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