There's a bit of The Dude in all of us in the antiwar-peace movement.
The famous two-word last line of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury comes to mind. It refers to the family of Dilsey, the black cook and servant who sustains the doomed white Compson family. Faulkner writes: "They endured."
In a similar manner, the antiwar-peace movement and what it stands for may suffer indignities, a lack of respect and periods of dormancy. But, like Dilsey, we will endure.
The Dude abides.
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