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I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

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Radhanath Swami
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 7
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