text:  And these were people who were schoolteachers, professors, labor organizers. They were not spies for Stalin. And when they figured out what Stalin was up to, they left the Communist Party. But, you know, they were young men and women and they were trying to do right. And the government was so egregious about lying about them. I was shattered by it. I mean, it took me, I'd say, 30 years before I could salute the flag.