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Bring Them Home Now Tour in Milwaukee

By John Zutz

The Bring Them Home Now Tour arrived in Milwaukee ahead of schedule, but the Milwaukee chapter of VVAW had lunch prepared and set up, and greeted the riders as they arrived.

After eating and giving interviews, the riders were the focus of a public rally. I assured the crowd of about three hundred that killing and dying in a hot, wet climate was amazingly similar to killing and dying in a hot, dry climate.

I explained that I am occasionally asked to speak to school classes, and asked the gathering to pretend they were in one of those classes. Then I roused the crowd by giving them a pop quiz on the similarities between the wars in Vietnam and Iraq—and the gathered people shouted the single answer, "It was a lie!" to each question.

The riders from Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Gold Star Families for Peace told the group why they needed to be on the bus.

After a three-hour stop, the bus traveled on to Chicago, with the ultimate goal of Washington, DC for the large September 24 rally.