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“... a newspaper clipping sent to me from San Jose, California. In 1965, during the Vietnam War, Lisa Kalvelage and two other women, dressed in their Sunday best, stopped a shipment of napalm by standing on a loading platform, refusing to budge. She told this story ...”
My Name Is Liza Kalvelage - YouTube

Provided to YouTube by Legacy/ColumbiaMy Name Is Liza Kalvelage · Pete SeegerWaist Deep In The Big Muddy and other Love Songs℗ Originally released 1967. All ...

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My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in Nuremberg
And when the trials were held there nineteen years ago
It seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to blame
For the horrors which the world did undergo
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A short while later when I applied for I was a G. I. bride
An American consular official questioned me
He refused my exit permit, said my answers did not show
I'd learned my lesson about responsibility

Thus suddenly, I was forced to start thinking on this theme
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And when later I was permitted to immigrate
I must have been asked a hundred times, where I was and what I did
In those years when Hitler ruled our state
I said, I was a child or at most a teenager
But this always extended the questioning
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They'd ask, where were my parents, my father, my mother
And to this I could answer not a thing
The seed planted there at Nuremberg in 1947
Started to sprout and to grow
Gradually, I understood what that verdict meant to me
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When there are crimes that I can see and I can know

And now I also know what it is to be charged with mass guilt
Once in a lifetime is enough for me
No, I could not take it a second time
That is why I am here today

The events of May 25th, the day of our protest
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Put a small balance weight on the other side
Hopefully, someday my contribution to peace
Will help just a bit to turn the tide

And perhaps I can tell my children six
And later on their own children
That at least in the futurethey need not be silent
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Lyrics 7
When they are asked, "Where was your mother, when?"
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