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Temperatures soared into the 60s and even a few 70s across much of southern Minnesota on Monday — a spring-like start to what’s shaping up to be a wild weather week across the state.
Don Luce wrote in a resignation letter: “We are finding it increasingly difficult to quietly pursue our main objective: helping the people of Vietnam. The war as it is presently being waged is self-defeating in approach.”
Don Luce evolved from a bystander in the Vietnam War to an influential activist who helped boost the antiwar movement back home in the U.S. in 1970 by showing members of a congressional team the horrific conditions inside a prison run by U.S.-ally South Vietnam.
His relentless campaign against the war and his exposure of South Vietnam’s “tiger cages” were instrumental in turning the American public and Congress against the war.