The Butterfly Who Stung: The Great Story of Muhammad Ali.
7 min readSep 23, 2021
On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali arrived at the Armed Forces Induction Center in Houston, and made his way through a sea of reporters with a smile. He had big news: he wasn’t going to serve in the U.S. armed forces. He refused because of his religious views and because he believed the Vietnam War was erroneous. He had spent the previous few years speaking out against the war. “My conscience…