What is the threshold for recognizing sacrifice ? [View All]

[moof]

A little back ground,

Since it looks like there may be reason to think massive protests could again be
launched all over America, there has been some research being done at the
moof hut into what people in the past have done
in order to bring pressure to a situation and focus on a cause.

It looks like it would require the most massive & strongest possible types of
protest to have any impact.

So the research stated with those that paid the ultimate price.

It was surprising to find so little information on people that had gone to such
extremes to make their point.

The monks in Vietnam that set themselves on fire in protest inspired several
people in America to do the same thing during the late 60s.

The tradition was continued when bush1 started the first gulf war.

There is almost no information on the people that gave their lives in protest
back in 1990/91 and if anyone can find the name of the third and possibly last
person to do it on Feb.18, 1991, you are better at googling and research than
moof.

A couple moof threads about it got next to nothing in response.
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Now the point of this thread.

Don't go off the deep end here, no one is saying or expecting anyone to do
anything about any sort of tribute to any of these protesters.

The question is simply this,
and the Vietnam war is being used because more lives were at stake at the time
of the protest.

The 58 thousand people that ended up with their names on the Vietnam wall
were more than deserving of any and all honors and recognition and there is
nothing moof would not do to bring back any one of them.
The vast majority of them it is assumed went to Vietnam hoping to return to
America and resume their lives.

The eight people (if thats all there were) that gave their lives in protest of that
war and in hopes of drawing enough attention to the war that people would
demand that the killing be stopped.
They gave their lives knowing and willing to never have a chance to resume their
lives in hopes that as it turns out that 25 thousand of the names on the wall
might not have been there. Not to mention all the humans that were killed
because they lived in Vietnam.

Shouldn't there be some recognition somewhere about the sacrifice of these
people ?

If nothing else shouldn't their names and information about their protest event
be a matter of public record that is accessable to the masses like the internet
? It appears now that there is at least one unknown protester and it is really
crummy that this guys name is not even on file where people in research could
easily access it.

No disrespect meant to any of those that served fought were injured or killed
but it does seem that on some level these protesters were
trying to save lives and make the world a better place & they have been for the
most part erased from American history.