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Hauerwas story from the Gutless Pacifist:

Stanley Hauerwas used to say that he wanted to be sure that his children suffered for his convictions as a Christian - so when President Richard Nixon began (pre-emptive?) bombing in Vietnam -- he told his son over breakfast that everytime he hears the name Richard Nixon at school today (he was in grade school) he wanted him to say real loud, "You mean the murderer?" Hauerwas practiced it with him a number of times over breakfast before sending him to school.