Peace activist returns to 'scene of crime' where legs lost

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Man sat on train tracks protesting firearms being sent to Central America
By Ryan Huff, STAFF WRITER
Article Launched: 09/01/2007 02:39:38 AM PDT

CLYDE — S. Brian Willson's shin bone sits in a medicine bag hanging on his living room wall. That's next to the boots and St. Louis Cardinals cap he wore during a protest when a military train ran over his legs Sept. 1, 1987, on tracks at the Concord Naval Weapons Station ...

Willson, born on the Fourth of July 66 years ago, is still protesting international conflicts. He participates in a weekly silent vigil opposing the Iraq war in the town square of Arcata, a small North Coast city as famous for its liberalism as it is for Humboldt State University ...

Willson left for Vietnam in the spring of 1969 as a devoted Air Force officer ready to fight communism. Or at least that's what the then-conservative 27-year-old law student thought.

A few weeks into his deployment, he walked through Vietnamese villages to see hundreds of families killed by American air assaults ...

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1. I remember that well...they ran over him on purpose. The protestors

wouldn't quit so they tried to kill them...

[proud patriot]

2. It's just a few miles from my house growing up FYI

I used to cross those very tracks everyday on my way to High School.
My friend's dad was the the engineer of the train that ran Wilson
over . He wasn't informed by the navy of the protest that day .

He usually was told, would bring the train to a stop, the protesters
would be arrested, and the train would be on it's way . But that day,
I believe something Sinister happened . My Friend's dad went into a
deep depression , his life like Brian Wilson's has never been the same .

I lost contact with my friend after she moved .

Just a sad sad story all around .

The Navy IMO did a very bad thing that day .