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This is the classic moment when 17-year-old Jan Rose Kasmir used flowers to fight guns.

On October 21, 1967, thousands of demonstrators shouted slogans and rushed towards the Pentagon, turning a peaceful rally against the Vietnam War in Washington into a violent conflict. Thousands of demonstrators from all over the United States flocked to Washington, the capital, and gathered in front of the Lincoln Monument. They held placards such as "Withdraw the troops immediately", "Abolish the conscription system" and "We will not go to Vietnam (to fight)". In the afternoon, a rally attended by more than 100,000 demonstrators was held to strongly condemn the war of aggression against Vietnam carried out by the Johnson administration and the conscription system.

After the meeting, the demonstrators sang anti-war songs and chanted slogans against aggressive wars, and marched towards the Pentagon, where the U.S. Department of Defense is located. Demonstrators surrounded the Ministry of Defense building and stormed the building. They clashed with military police armed with various weapons, and some people even rushed into the Pentagon and fought with military police in the corridors. Soldiers and federal law enforcement officers guarding the Pentagon, armed with rifles and bayonets, formed a cordon to prevent the demonstrators from attacking. However, the demonstrators still bravely attacked the police cordon, and the security personnel had no choice but to use batons and rifle butts to hit the demonstrators. Hundreds of people were arrested at the demonstrations, including novelist Mailer and rally organizer Dellinger, chairman of the National Organizing Committee to End the Vietnam War. The large-scale violence gradually subsided at night, with only a few hundred people protesting at key locations.

During this anti-war march, Jane Ross, a 17-year-old girl who was fostered in Maryland, appeared. She walked into the protest as soon as she got off the bus, and finally faced a gun and live ammunition. of military police.

She believed that although the army was a war machine, the soldiers were all human beings with flesh and blood and emotions. She tried to persuade the soldiers to give up their war ideas. Later, she stood in front of the heavily armed military police with flowers in hand. The historical moment was frozen by Mark Riboud.

The photo is called "Guns and Flowers"

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