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Iconicvoice of protest keeps a roadside vigil

Most Saturdays, Pete Seeger protests against the war in Iraq. It’s a long road from 1969, when to protest the Vietnam War he sang John Lennon’s ‘Give Peace a Chance’ at the foot of the Washington Monument

By Dennis Gaffney  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , WAPPINGERS FALLS, NEW YORK

“I shook his hand and said, ‘I’m glad we live in a country where we can disagree with each other without shooting at each other.’ He had to shake my hand. He didn’t know what to say. I even picked up a little litter over there.”

He said that working for peace was like adding sand to a basket on one side of a large scale, trying to tip it one way despite enormous weight on the opposite side.

“Some of us try to add more sand by teaspoons,” he explained. “It’s leaking out as fast as it goes in, and they’re all laughing at us. But we’re still getting people with teaspoons. I get letters from people saying, ‘I’m still on the teaspoon brigade.’”

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