Don Luce, who passed away on November 17, 2022, at the age of 88, was a kindred spirit and one of my heroes on a decidedly short list.

Don Luce, who passed away on November 17, 2022, at the age of 88, was a kindred spirit and one of my heroes on a decidedly short list.
People’s historian Staughton Lynd died after an extraordinary life as a conscientious objector, activist, professor, author, lawyer.
A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory. Activist, radical hero and family man. “City of Quartz” author.
After escaping arrest in Vietnam for his antiwar views, he became the most prominent Vietnamese in the US against the war. NY Times Obituary.
Vietnam relations author, anti-war movement leader during the US war in Vietnam. History professor at the Univ. of Maine.
Fearless and free-spirited, he pushed the boundaries of life and photography, recording intimate images of combat that...
His circle included Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Founder of the The Realist, he was called the “father of the underground press”.
Robert “Bob” Meola was a leader of Students for a Democratic Society at MSU during the Vietnam War and committed his life to anti-militarism.
Bob Moses not only fought for Black people to have the right to vote, he also spoke out against war and imperialism.
“The prosecutors of the [Vietnam] war,” he said, were “the same people who refused to protect civil rights in the South.”
He demonstrated that differences in DNA between groups of people were far smaller than originally believed.
Senator Gravel was fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War and the draft and played a seminal role in the release of the Pentagon Papers.
“Kostas Sarantidis’s life is tied in with the heroic moments of the Vietnamese people.” Named Hero of the People’s Armed Forces of Vietnam.
Senator Gravel read the Pentagon Papers aloud at a hearing at a time when newspapers were barred from publishing them.