On October 21, 1967, thousands of antiwar activists gathered in Washington DC to storm the pentagon as a way to protest the war in Vietnam. Among these protestors was Jan Rose Kasmir, a high school student who had spontaneously joined the march. In the face of many soldiers armed with shiny weapons, Kasmir reached out to offer the soldiers a flower. By responding to guns with a symbol of life, softness, and fragility, Kasmir created a stark juxtaposition between soft and hard, life and death, and love and anger in order to create a moment that defied the unfolding of a typical protest. Imbued with softness and life, this flower thus questions how we protest, and perhaps more importantly, how we effectively protest. In a moment of extreme tension, Kasmir’s offering provides us with an alternative method of opposition, one that attempts to express understanding and hope over polarizing hate.