周三是五十九年前，数万人参加了从阿灵顿纪念大桥出发、全程两英里的游行，前往国防部总部。
Fifty-nine years ago Wednesday, tens of thousands of people joined the two-mile walk across Arlington Memorial Bridge to the headquarters of the Defense Department.
尽管他们尝试过，但在1967年10月21日为反对越南战争而游行前往五角大楼的数万人，并没有能让当时世界上最大的办公大楼升空。
They tried, but the tens of thousands of people who marched on the Pentagon on Oct. 21, 1967, to oppose the Vietnam War didn’t manage to get the world’s then-largest office building aloft.
但在反战战争中首次直接对抗政府的大规模游行中，他们确实成功地改变了反战运动的策略，正如组织者的座右铭“从抗议到抵抗”一样，并且诞生了该运动最具冲击力的画面之一：一名年轻人将康乃馨轻轻插入空降第503宪兵营对准他的M14步枪枪管中。
But in the first major demonstration of the war to confront the government directly, they did succeed in changing the strategy of the anti-war movement, in the organizers’ motto, “from protest to resistance” — and produced one of its most powerful images: A young man, the M14 rifles of the 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne) trained on him, delicately placing carnations in their barrels.
到1967年10月，南北越南已经交战了十二年。数十万名战斗人员和平民丧生。美国为此强征了超过72.5万名年轻人，并阵亡了1万5千多人。
By October 1967, North and South Vietnam had been at war for a dozen years. Hundreds of thousands of combatants and civilians lay dead. The United States had drafted more than 725,000 of its young men for the effort, and lost more than 15,000.
向五角大楼进军是由该国激进左翼的几位最著名领袖组织的：在第二次世界大战期间入狱的拒绝服兵役者戴夫·戴林杰；后来的杰皮派（Yippies）成员阿比·霍夫曼和杰里·鲁宾；垮掉派诗人艾伦·金斯伯格和加里·施奈德；LSD大师蒂莫西·利里。
The March on the Pentagon was organized by several of the most prominent leaders of the country’s radical left: The conscientious objector David Dellinger, imprisoned during World War II; the future Yippies Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin; the beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder; LSD guru Timothy Leary.
周三是五十九年前，10万人聚集在林肯纪念堂；3.5万至5万人参加了横跨阿灵顿纪念大桥、长达两英里的游行，前往国防部总部。语言学家诺姆·乔姆斯基、小说家诺曼·梅勒、诗人罗伯特·洛厄尔和小儿科医生本杰明·斯波克发表了演讲。
Fifty-nine years ago Wednesday, 100,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial; 35,000 to 50,000 joined the two-mile walk across Arlington Memorial Bridge to the headquarters of the Defense Department. Linguist Noam Chomsky, novelist Norman Mailer, poet Robert Lowell and pediatrician Benjamin Spock delivered speeches.
音乐家菲尔·奥克斯和The Fugs乐队进行了表演。霍夫曼和鲁宾带领人群高喊口号，以驱除五角大楼的恶魔并试图让大楼悬浮。（据报道，这些滑稽的举动让马丁·路德·金没有出席此次活动。）梅勒对这次游行的记述——纪实小说《夜间军队》——赢得了美国国家图书奖和普利策奖。
Musicians Phil Ochs and the Fugs performed. Hoffman and Rubin led the crowd in chants to exorcise the demons from the Pentagon and try to levitate the building. (Such antics reportedly kept Martin Luther King Jr. away from the event.) Mailer’s account of the demonstration, the nonfiction novel “Armies of the Night,” won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
但当天最让人铭记、或许也是最具说服力的举动，是18岁的乔治·埃杰利·哈里斯三世对“花朵力量”（这一词汇是金斯伯格两年前创造的）的无声展示。
But the best-remembered and perhaps most eloquent act of the day was the quiet show of flower power, a phrase Ginsberg had coined two years earlier, by 18-year-old George Edgerly Harris III.
作为一名居住在纽约的演员——他此前已经与詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯和阿尔·帕西诺一起出演过外百老汇戏剧——哈里斯似乎抓住了那一刻。几支步枪正指着他。面对其致命的威力，他露出了看似温柔专注的表情，并用花朵塞满了枪管。
A New York-based actor — he had already appeared off-Broadway with James Earl Jones and Al Pacino — Harris appears to have understood the moment. Several rifles are pointing at him. Confronted with their lethal power, he adopts an expression of seemingly gentle attention and loads them with flowers.
向五角大楼进军被视为反战运动的一个转折点，当时其抗议活动从被动转向主动，而《华盛顿晚星报》摄影师伯尼·波斯顿拍摄的哈里斯形象，以其严肃与奇思妙想的强烈对比，成为了这场运动的标志，被广泛转载，在抗议活动中挥舞，如今又在展览中展出。
The March on the Pentagon is seen as a turning point in the anti-war movement, when its protests went from passive to active, and the image of Harris captured by Washington Evening Star photographer Bernie Boston, in its jarring juxtaposition of gravity and whimsy, became an icon of the cause, widely reprinted, wielded at protests, now shown in exhibitions.
这场战争将会恶化——1968年将是伤亡最惨重的一年——但抗议活动将会增加。这场运动与生动的电视报道和不断上升的伤亡人数一起，被认为扭转了公众对战争的看法，制约了美国领导人并加速了美国的撤军。
The war would worsen — 1968 would be its deadliest year — but the protests would grow. The movement, alongside graphic television reports and mounting casualties, is credited with turning public opinion against the war, constraining U.S. leaders and hastening the U.S. withdrawal.
“照片年鉴”是《华盛顿邮报》的一个不定期专栏，利用照片档案审视我们走过的路，以理解我们身处何方。
Photo Almanac is an occasional series from The Washington Post, using photo archives to examine where we’ve been to understand where we are.