Posts Tagged ‘Jan Rose Kasmir’
Remembering The Flower Girl: Jan Rose Kasmir, a Chrysanthemum, and the Vietnam War
“A 17-year-old high school girl named Jan Rose Kasmir walked up to a row of soldiers holding rifles with bayonets… She held a single chrysanthemum bloom in her hands.” October 21, 1967 On this day, 100,000 demonstrators attended the March on the Pentagon – one of the most massive demonstrations of the Vietnam War. …
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