We need to see more S.A.N.D. trucks in our town:
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onviolence
D
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to keep us from sliding on the I.C.E.:
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Rawlings is a Vietnam veteran and the author of four collections of poems: Orion Rising, A G.I. Portrait, In the Shadow of the Annamese Mountains, and A Baker’s Dozen (children’s poems). He is a founding member and former poet laureate of Veterans For Peace.