Terminating Protected EC2 Instances

I'm not sure I remember selecting a protection option during creation (perhaps its a default), but while trying to terminate an old micro test box, I encountered the following:

As it turns out, this was fairly easy to resolve.  From the EC2 console window, right-click the offending instance, and choose "Change Termination Protection":

After that, just right-click the EC2 instance and select "Terminate", and it cleans up without issue.