Protesters In A Letter Home And Waiting For Dan

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Protesters. They do whatever they have to in order to fight for what they believe in. In some cases, these protesters have to face severe consequences such as injuries, jail time, or even death. In A Letter Home and Waiting for Dan, protesters had to fight for what they believed in. Though both of these stories are from different time periods, they still have the same concept. In A Letter Home, students at a college were experiencing some small acts of violence happening around the university. The governor of Ohio sent the Ohio National guard to help keep peace over the university. The students protested against having 1,000 armed soldiers to keep peace at the school. In paragraph 5 the text states, “students began shouting and throwing rocks.”