“There was once a high school student who was called upon by a group of men to give a speech on a matter he deemed to be of moral importance. When he delivered that speech in the form of a criticism of the American war in Vietnam, those same men publicly condemned him as a traitor, a Communist, a false prophet, a turncoat, a wolf in sheep's clothing, even an antichrist. They gathered round him and denounced him in front of his peers as the worst that America could spew forth. I can tell, as that young man now grown, that my intention in 1970 was not to undermine America, but in my own feeble way to make her better.” - Jeffrey R. Ryan (teacher/martyr)