Topics addressed by Wallace: growing up in Springfield, Massachusetts; attending Clark University and becoming involved in the activism on campus; his early impressions of the military his initial reaction to his low lottery number and his resolve to serve if called; watching the war in Vietnam escalate and how it changed his opinion of serving in the military; demonstrating against the war by distributing pamphlets; learning to open to others' experiences and deciding to become an educator; fighting his own personal war to gain respect and dignity as a teacher in Amherst.
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