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VN was the first war that America was involved in where "Political Correctness" counted and the protestors made sure that it counted in the ballot boxes and those that weren't there only saw what came over the boob tube. There where "Peace signs" aka chicken prints, on helmets and booney hats and that's what the in-country reporters and camera men took photos of. Those chicken prints that I saw were drawn sarcasticaly and I never knew of one on someone that wouldn't take a shot when they needed to. "FTA" was written on most of the helmet liners that I knew of and the photographers from CBS didn't take pictures of that. The cameras also rolled stateside when the Vietnam Veterans Against the War showed up but you never saw the cameras at the airports when troops, swabbies or airmen came home. Rule of thumb for the headlines is that if it isn't different it isn't "News" and if it isn't different it doesn't get reported. Congress and the Executive Branch thought that it was "Mainstream" thinking and acted accordingly. The "Protestors" won the war, oops Police Action, in Vietnam.
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