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I thought we might share stories of people whose lives were inspired. Here's one I found by accident:
John Brian McDonnell was what one friend called a "spiritual busybody": someone who could not help but intervene in a world that saddened him with its injustices.
A former Jesuit seminarian, he entered history as the young pacifist who fasted for 37 days across the street from the White House to protest the U.S. incursion into Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The fast launched him into an unlikely but long-lasting friendship with then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, who wrote of McDonnell in his memoirs and mentioned him again years later at President Nixon's funeral......
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John McDonnell, 60; Antiwar Activist, 'Spiritual Busybody' - Los Angeles Times
John Brian McDonnell was what one friend called a "spiritual busybody": someone who could not help but intervene in a world that saddened him with its injustices.
A former Jesuit seminarian, he entered history as the young pacifist who fasted for 37 days across the street from the White House to protest the U.S. incursion into Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The fast launched him into an unlikely but long-lasting friendship with then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, who wrote of McDonnell in his memoirs and mentioned him again years later at President Nixon's funeral......
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John McDonnell, 60; Antiwar Activist, 'Spiritual Busybody' - Los Angeles Times