Clarence Page: This young GI met Donald Sutherland in a bygone era. RIP to an original
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 25, 2024
3 minutes
News of Donald Sutherland’s death at age 88 took me back to a day in 1971 when he was protesting the Vietnam War onstage with Jane Fonda and I was one of about 1,000 off-duty soldiers in their audience.
I hoped, in the spirit of John Lennon’s anthem, to give peace a chance.
We were outside Fort Lewis, Washington, now known as Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where I was stationed as a draftee waiting for Vietnam orders that, as
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