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Longtime activist fights for peace in Ohio town
Larry Gara 76, a Quaker historian and pacifist, spent years in prison for dodging the draft in World War II. He organized 22 peace vigils at a nearby Air Force base, taught peace studies, helped publish a book on nonviolence, and reflects on war Vastly shaped by experiences in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Kentucky prisons, he remains active in Wilmington College circles and the American peace movement.
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