[SteveMcKing]

Let's not forget Boston Globe lib columnist Ellen Goodman's step-son, who immolated himself on the Amherst town common to protest Gulf War I.

Wow. There's a memory.

The outrage was a certain newspaper (Globe? Middlesex?) that then ran a side-by-side biography of him and a soldier (can't remember.... was it Swartzkopf or someone else?).

The paper treated them with equal reverence. It was very insulting, I remember that much at least.

[buccaneer81]

The outrage was a certain newspaper (Globe? Middlesex?) that then ran a side-by-side biography of him and a soldier

I'm thinking The Hampshire Daily News (Northampton's rag.) I used to live in Framingham and I don't think The Middlesex News would go that far left.