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Thích Quang Duc was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who self-immolated at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963 in protest of the discriminatory treatment endured by Buddhists.
--Three Americans immolated themselves in 1965, in protest of the Vietnam War. The first was Alice Herz, an 82-year-old German immigrant who performed the act in downtown Detroit on March 16, 1965, prior to the University of Michigan Teach-in. The second was Norman Morrison, who performed the act outside of the Pentagon office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara after reading an article by a missionary about the destruction of a Vietnamese village by napalm. The third was Roger Allen LaPorte, in front of the United Nations building in New York City on November 9, 1965. At the time, he was a 22-year-old Catholic Worker Movement member.
--The concept for this design came from our friend and neighbor Jerrod Fox.
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