Eric Scott

Eric Scott was a student at Regal University in the graduating class of 1968. Scott had been raised to take a stand and never move for anyone, which he took into account after watching television news broadcasts of the Civil Rights Movement and the rising conflict in Vietnam. Eric would go on to protest the Vietnam War, and by his sophomore year would have spent quite some time in academic suspensions for his involvement. During his time at the University, Scott would be roommates with Johnny Raymond, who was very much his opposite - yet the two quickly formed a friendship, Scott just knowing not to bring up politics. In the summer of 1967, Eric burned his draft card in a sign of protest, making the front page of a local newspaper.

In May 1968, Eric finally convinced Raymond to join him at a party being hosted just off campus. There, Scott introduced Raymond to the anti-war movement firsthand, though it fell on deaf ears due to Johnny's own determination to enlist and his brother, Davy, returning home from the war. Scott was also present the night Davy would come to a party and first publicly show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, leading to an argument between him and Raymond.

Scott took part in the anti-war group that was the target of the Noah Park Incident. Scott attempted to bring Sara Wayward away from the conflict and even offered to leave when asked by police officer James Edwards, who had spent the last two years undercover with the group. After Wayward struck Edwards and the shooting began, Eric protected her, and upon the final request and Wayward once again punched Edwards, Scott took the bullet fired by Edwards, becoming paralyzed for life. The group would be acquitted in court, as they were ruled to be small enough that they were well within their rights to protest on public property.

Eric and Sara would form a relationship during his stay in the hospital, him moving in to her apartment where the parties were held. Not long after being discharged from the hospital, Scott would visit Johnny at his uptown apartment - Davy had committed suicide on the same day as the Incident, though the meeting was not productive. Rather, Johnny would later seek out Eric to reconcile, and the two met with Edwards, who was in the process of leaving the city. The group reunited after the shootout, and would go on to protest the war until the end in 1972.

Eric began a professorship at Regal in 1983, and would go on to write a book about the anti-war movement.