"Well then, we'll just sit here and wait," Chris says. "We got plenty of time. Veterans don't get jobs, you know. We just sit around and wait, so we might as well do it here."

And Crazy Chris's group did wait-for nearly 30 minutes-alternately foraging through Herbert's offices for a closer look at his mementos and fending off the angry, but restraining invitations from Miss Moore to depart.

"Your cause might be better served if you conducted your protest with more dignity," Miss Moore exclaimed. "You can't have dignity once you've been in Vietnam," Crazy Chris said again.

Something Terrible

Redden explained, "We're here to say that since being in Nam we've been radicalized and unless somebody gets the word, something terrible is going to start happening in this country."

"Well, Mr. Herbert would be the first to agree," Miss Moore interjected, but. Redden ignored her and continued in his speech.

"That picture in there of GI's storming the ramparts. That isn't the way it is. That picture makes me physically sick. We don't storm villages in Vietnam, we burn them; and these aren't soldiers we kill, but women and children. Do you know what a free fire zone is? Do you know that 60 per cent of all babies born in defoliated areas are malformed?

"Your Congressman thinks this war is like the last one, and he still wants us to keep fighting it for him. He thinks that when the college kids come down here on Saturday, he still has vets with him back home.

No One Left

"What I mean is when you've got Vietnam veterans against this war, there's no one left for him to fall back on. We're giving up our jobs, our schooling-we've given up everything-to come here for a week and stay until this war ends; and hawks like your Congressman better understand that right now.

"Will you tell him that?" Redden asked as Miss Moore suddenly discovered that maybe these madmen are only half-crazy. "You tell him, because if you don't, we'll come back and tell him ourselves."

Redden, Pecket, Chotner, Kuykendahl, and Crazy Chris rose altogether and headed off to find Agnew.