numerous moderate opponents of the war believed the best way to end the war was not to rampage through the streets but to win over Americans who disliked the war and the Weathermen. That meant appealing to the middle class so that, in the words of twenty-five-year-old former divinity student Sam Brown, “the heartland folks felt it belonged to them.” Brown and others organized a countrywide “Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam” that included not just college students but ministers, teachers, businessmen, housewives, and other ordinary Americans (though the great majority of congressmen and
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