Pat Scanlon is a Vietnam veteran and the coordinator (elected leader) of the Boston chapter of Veterans for Peace, also called the "Smedley Butler Brigade". As luck would have it, a diary about Smedley Butler appeared just yesterday: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Now we will present some of the songs that Pat Scanlon has written and performed.
Pat Scanlon's most recent composition is entitled "Extremists". This song is a comment on the police surveillance that has been done on peace activists in the Boston area who were using their First Amendment rights of free speech and peaceful assembly. For background see: http://aclum.org/....
You can hear a transcript of a radio report at: http://www.wbur.org/....
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Here, Pat Scanlon is joined by a large contingent in performing "War is Not the Answer":
The final song asks a good question: "Where is the Rage?" (I apologize that this is the only link I could find, so you'll have to clear the ad.)
http://blip.tv/...
The struggle for peace continues.