Actions Speak Louder uses artists, musicians, performance and spoken word to educate and inspire communities to eliminate inequality, racism, gender discrimination, mass incarceration and depression.
The aging draft resister came early to beat the Memorial Day observance at Los Angeles National Cemetery. He angled through rows of white headstones, treading on immaculately tended grass. He stopped at the grave of the judge who had sentenced him.
He had a message for U.S. District Judge Harry Pregerson that has been in his thoughts since that day in 1970.
As a 22-year-old in 1967, Bob Zaugh had found a purpose in his life more important than school, career or even freedom. It was a recognition of the commonality of all humans that meant he could not support the Vietnam War or the system that sent young men to fight in it.
