HISTORICAL CONTEXT Excerpt from above page... This pin was inspired by "Flower Power", a historic photograph taken by American photographer, Bernie Boston, for the now-defunct Washington Star newspaper. The picture, "Flower Power", 1967 was photographed by Bernie Boston on October 21, 1967 while he was sitting on the wall of the Mall Entrance of the Pentagon. It was nominated for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Taken October 21, 1967, during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's March on the Pentagon, the iconic photo shows a Vietnam War protester placing a carnation into the barrel of a rifle held by a soldier of the 503rd Military Police Battalion. When the antiwar demonstrators approached the Pentagon, Boston was sitting on top of a wall of the Mall Entrance when he saw a lieutenant march a squad of guardsmen into the crowd of demonstrators. The squad then formed a semicircle around the demonstrators, the young man in the photo emerged from the crowd and started placing carnations in the rifles. Boston took it as an opportunity to capture the moment, seeing that "everything came together" and he had a good angle sitting on top of the wall. When Boston showed the photograph to his editor at the Washington Star, he "didn't see the importance of the picture" so it was put aside. Instead, Boston started entering it in photography competitions, where it earned its recognition. Lew's Reaction- WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!