On this day, 17 May 1968, The Catonsville NIne, a group of Catholic Activists, went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland to protest the US Occupation of Vietnam. Entering the Selective Service office, the nine took 378 draft files from cabinets, took them outside, and burned them in the parking lot with a batch of homemade napalm.
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