"So, grampa, what did you do during GWII. Did you march on Baghdad?"
". . .uh. . .well, son. I would'a went, but you see, I had this bowel problem. But I did what I could to help the war effort in San Francisco. Yeah, that's it."
"Way kewl, pops! That must have been exciting."
"T'weren't much. I was an 'evacuator'."
"Oh, you were with FEMA? Wow!"
"Well, no. We just made sure there was law and odor in the streets. They wuz the law and we wuz the odor."
I went to the Indymedia site (where they seem to be proud that they are not under "Zionist" control). I saw a report of the protest events of the day and someone stated that police were cracking down on heads in SF.
Maybe the law enforcers are "beating the crap" out of them.