protesters

[Packo]

Bob,

Yes I am!

Pack

[b3196]

Pack
OK......I think I understand
bOOger

[b3196]

Ladies and gentlemen
Packo and I just performed a few lines from Monty Python's Holy Grail....Ya'll can applaud now

bOOger

[Keith_Hixson]

The Mighty duo have done it again. Trash a thread.

Taylor Please Forgive Them, They have no idea what they are doing.

________

Seriously,
I was called a Baby-Killer by a college student. I told him that I never killed a baby but as a "trained killer" I could practice on a college student. I think he took me serious, he kinda turned pale and slipped away. Made my day.

Keith

[Boats]

My thoughts are that I would say the protesters and a few so called movie stars had in someway influenced the media - and they influenced - the congressional folks. It became impossible to fight war on two fronts.

It seems the lessons they learned back then are back in vogue during the current conflict. They are sending the same signals used during VN and having the same affect.

[SuperScout]

An interesting question you pose! For an in-depth analysis of the protest movement, first examine what organizations were behind what might appear as innocent demonstrators. The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and many of its sympathizers was probably the most organized and well funded of them all, with tentacles reaching into the most innocent sounding group. The lasting effect of the CPUSA is that practically any organization today that has the name "Peace and Justice" anywhere in its banner can trace its lineage back to the CPUSA. Many of these types of groups are still alive and well today, as evidenced in the anti-war demonstrations. Much of the anti-capitalist trouble-makers and dregs of society can also be linked to earlier groups linked in turn to the CPUSA.

Sadly, the US was cursed with gutless wonders back in the 60's and 70's, and their offspring or themselves are still practicing their craven works, except this time it is called "cut and run." AS Vietnam war veterans, we were harmed by their lily-livered actions, and I fear that our current crop of warriors will be even more damaged by the cowards and traitors of today.

[Stick]

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.
Welcome home Brothers.

[Robert Ryan]

I don't stick, I have talked to a lot of VN Vets who didn't think we should have been in Vietnam, but they went becaue they said they felt it they still beleived in or country. They could have run to Canada or other places but they didn't they served their time and served honorably. I don't belive in war, but my reasons are not political. I think a lot of people on this site know what I mean by that.