{"id":3475,"date":"2019-02-10T21:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2019-06-01T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T18:31:35","slug":"looking-for-the-awesome-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/2019\/02\/10\/looking-for-the-awesome-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For The Awesome – 20. Bullpen? Bullshit!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We’re honored to be able to publish Stan Taylor’s Kirby biography here in the state he sent it to us, with only the slightest bit of editing. – Rand Hoppe<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BULLPEN? BULLSHIT!!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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On March 16th 1965, an 82 year old German Jew, who had escaped the horror of Nazi Germany, had run out of alternatives. Alice Herz\u2019s campaigns to end the war in Viet Nam had proven fruitless. In a final act of desperation Alice went outside and on an urban Detroit street doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire, thus becoming the first American to self-immolate in protest of the war. She wasn\u2019t the last. This human torch didn\u2019t fly or throw flame balls- she died a horrible painful death. Herz wrote a last testament, which she distributed to several friends and fellow activists before her death. The testament specifically refers to her decision to follow the protest methods of the Buddhist Vietnamese monks and nuns, whose acts of self-immolation had received worldwide attention. Confiding to a friend before her death, Herz remarked that she had used all of the accepted protest methods available to activists\u2014including marching, protesting, and writing countless articles and letters\u2014and she wondered what else she could do. Later in March, Martin Luther King would lead a civil rights march on Selma, Alabama. In April, 25,000 people would march on Washington D.C. in protest of the war. The perfect storm of civil disobedience had arrived and America would never be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n