Today marks the 45th anniversary of the landmark anti-Vietnam War protest carried out by a group of activists who came to be known as the Catonsville Nine. On May 17, 1968, Father Daniel Berrigan, his brother Philip, and seven others went to the draft office in Catonsville, Maryland, where they removed hundreds of draft records and torched them. They were sentenced to three years in prison. Their action helped ignite a wave of direct actions against the draft and the Vietnam War.