Battle Green Vietnam - 9780812252972

Battle Green VietnamThe 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston\nAuthor(s): Elise Lemire\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812252972, 978-0812252972\nSynopsis\nIn the spring of 1971, the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history unfolded at a site nationally celebrated as the birthplace of freedom and democracy. With peace efforts at a standstill, the New England chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War had organized an event to rouse public support for their cause. Over the course of the long Memorial Day weekend, a band of more than two hundred young, fatigue-clad veterans sounded the alarm for peace and patriotism by marching-in reverse-the path Paul Revere had taken two centuries earlier when he called on the American colonists to rise against their British oppressors.\n Enacting the parts of colonial militiamen, the veterans set off in patrol formation along the famed .