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Peace and War in the Heartland = Executive=20 Director Frank Kroncke discussed how the draft lottery worked during the = Vietnam=20 War and how it could operate again.

An engaged electorate is peace activist's goal

By = Julie=20 Michener
March 13,=20 2008

Peace and War in the Heartland and the Heart of the Beast Theatre=20 collaborated to show students, faculty and staff that the 1960=92s = social=20 revolution was more than a counterculture movement.=20

Also growing out of that era were the anti-war and anti-draft = movements in=20 reaction to the United States=92 involvement in the Vietnam = War.

Frank=20 Kroncke, a member of the =93Minnesota 8=94 and author of the book, = Outlaw or=20 American Patriot?, led the audience through an exercise on how the = draft=20 lottery worked and how it changed lives.

The Minnesota 8 was one = part of=20 a larger group, called "The Minnesota Conspiracy to Save Lives," whose = members=20 raided Selective Service draft boards in Minnesota on July 10, 1970. =

The=20 FBI arrested eight men. One of the 8 pleaded guilty and received = probation while=20 the remaining seven received the maximum sentence of five years in = federal=20 prison.

Arrested while he was teaching summer session at St. = Kate=92s,=20 Kroncke served 14 months in a federal prison near Sandstone. His book = was the=20 source material for the recent History Theatre production, Peace=20 Crimes.

Kroncke brought a sense of reality to the "virtual = draft" in=20 Rauenhorst Hall in Coeur de Catherine. He pointed out that currently the = U.S.=20 government solicits states for driver=92s license records to amass data = on 18-25=20 year=96olds across the country.

Assigning draft numbers by = birthdate,=20 Kroncke then spun the drum containing the numbers to pull audience = members into=20 the =93virtual draft.=94

"Draftees" received a "greetings" = packet with a=20 Report to Induction letter, a 1-A draft card and a To Do list that = instructed=20 =93draftees=94 to settle their debts, assign power of attorney and write = a will,=20 among others.

Then, the "draftee" pulled a "What happened to you = in the=20 war" true story from a basket to find out what = happened.

=93Ninety percent=20 of all soldiers going to war return home,=94 said Kroncke. =93Not all = the stories=20 end with the soldier dying.=94

His objective was spur discussion, = "If the=20 real Lottery were activated today, what would I do? Train to kill and = risk being=20 killed? Resist and go to prison? Accept exile to a foreign country, = never to=20 return to America?=94

Kroncke believes that a public conversation = about the=20 moral issues of war and peace is overdue and that an informed citizenry = is=20 democracy=92s best safeguard.

During the afternoon, he led = discussions on=20 =93The Rhetoric of War and Peace=94 and =93The Sacrament of Civil = Resistance,=94 as well=20 as a non-partisan peek behind the Peace Movement in light of the = Republican=20 National Convention in St. Paul in September.

Kroncke earned a=20 baccalaureate degree from St. John=92s and a masters from=20 the University of San Francisco and did doctoral work at UC = Berkley and=20 the Graduate Theological Union. You can learn more about him at either = www.minnesota8.net or www.pwh-mn.org.

The event was = sponsored by=20 Campus Ministry with assistance from Student Senate, the Myser = Initiative for=20 Catholic Identity, the Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women, the = Center of=20 Excellence for Women, Economic Justice, and Public Policy and the = Sisters of St.=20 Joseph Justice Commission.

Contact Julie=20 Michener, (651) 690-6521

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