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    c1971 Vietnam War Draft "Resist in Peace" 0.750 diameter and a very hard to find Lithograph button.

    The Greek Omega symbol = the mark of Resistance also the ohm resistance symbol used widely in the late 60s early 70s as War/Draft Resistance (inside a PEACE symbol) or what we call a Peace symbol but IS IT?
    In 1958 the symbol was made by Bertrand Russell for his group C.N.D. = Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament who used it on signs and banners during the 1958 Easter weekend protest march from London to Aldermaston, where nuclear weapons were stored.
    He based the symbol's design on the international semaphore alphabet. This system uses flag signals in place of letters like a code.
    The PEACE sign is actually the flag signals for the letters "N" (for NUCLEAR) and "D" (for DISARMAMENT) superimposed on each other, standing for NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.
    So not being designed as a PEACE symbol it has never been what pro-war fundamentalists claimed during the Vietnam War by a far-right group the JOHN BIRCH Society who spread a myth that THEY created through their national newsletters that the PEACE sign was a SATANIC symbol of an UPSIDE-DOWN CROSS with the horizontal lines "broken" by being bent downward. This rumor caught on among the pro-war, pro-administration conservative REPUBLICANS and fundamentalists in the U.S. Others tried to disparage the peace movement by labeling the peace symbol "the footprint of the American chicken".
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