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Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

- Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, lyrics from "Masters of War," 85
"Before closing my eyes to Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngo Dinh Diem, asking him to be kind and tolerant toward his people and to enforce a policy of religious equality."

- The last written words of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk who burned himself to death to protest the regime in South Vietnam, 86
"I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think."

- New York Times correspondent David Halberstam, a witness to the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk in Saigon, 87