Contemplating the Pro Palestine Protests

This generation’s anti-war voices and problems

Photo by Liam Edwards on Unsplash

In 1968, when I was thirteen years old, I was tear gassed. I’d skipped school and taken a bus downtown to go to an anti-war protest against our involvement in the war in Vietnam. There were perhaps a thousand protesters, mostly college students, and we sat in the middle of our busy Main Street and blocked traffic…