Robert Warren, Professor of Cell Biology, recalls growing up in Houston, Texas, and being only peripherally aware of race issues. In 1963, he was accepted into Harvard, and experienced culture shock. He became opposed to the war. Warren was protected by a student deferment in 1966, and managed to reach the age of 26 without being drafted. Warren describes the strike that took place at Harvard in April, 1969. Harvard students demonstrated, sometimes with violence, their opposition to the Vietnam War and took over a university administration building. President Pusey called the police on campus to evict and arrest the demonstrators, the most radical of whom were members of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). Warren concludes with some thoughts on ideology and how the lessons of the past should be applied to the US-Iraqi War.