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The Anti-war Movement Close Up And Personal At Brown Street

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The Anti-war Movement Close Up And Personal At Brown Street

October night chill fleeting
Leave-taking hours away
Shadows sweep across
Victorian ceiling
Off Brown
History grinding out
On empty silent streets below.

About this poem. This poem is about leaving for basic training after attending the October 15, 1969 moritorium demonstration against the Vietnam War at the state house in Providence, RI. Thousands gathered on the state house lawn after a procession coming down from College Hill on the East Side of Providence.