Still it haunts us. Yesterday in Phoenix, after thirty years of living under an assumed identity, a anti-war protester/student, Howard Mechanic, has been sent back to prison to finish serving the five years he was sentenced to for throwing a cherry bomb at firefighters during protests the day after four students were killed at Kent State.

According to newspaper reports, he has lived a productive life of social activism with integrity. One friend of his, a Vietnam War veteran, "It's an echo of a difficult time in our history. The sentence was way out of proportion...he was a young man of conscience."

Friends are collecting signatures on a petition to have him pardoned.

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