I was meat. The whole radicalizing thing for me started in college. I got involved in draft counseling. Studying economics at Harvard, Roang was stunned to see the statistics that showed the disparity between America's haves and have-nots. War seems to be the wrong answer to any question that's asked.
War is a failure of policies that ought to be designed to prevent war from happening.
When I was young, I thought it was an organized, orchestrated, Machiavellian plan of my elders to make sure war continued to happen to support a hungry economic machine. Now I think it happens because people are too stupid to avoid it. Though college gave Roang the intellectual framework for his opposition to war, an experience he had in high school in 1962 laid the emotional foundation. It was a strange scene. Here was I, playing 'Taps' for this kid who had been a member of small-town America, and now we were being taught the lessons on international conflict.