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I was out speaking publicly against the war almost immediately upon 
arriving in California. At first the meetings were small, only twenty or 
thirty people. As time passed the meetings got bigger until there were 
audiences of thousands. The crowd usually kept growing as I spoke. I 
would take a microphone onto an open campus area outdoors and just start 
talking. I threw in a lot of jokes, which always helped. One of my 
crowd-pleasers de­scribed casualties in Vietnam. I would say, "When 
casualties are reported every night you will notice that on one side 
they say a nationality, the United States; on the other they say an 
ideology, communists. For instance they will say 20 Americans were 
killed, but they killed 1,500 communists. If they were consistent and 
gave an ideological breakdown, it would be something like 30 
conservatives, 42 liberals, 155 socialists, and 250 apoliticals were 
killed and 4 existentialists were missing."

--North Star, a memoir


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