re: Vietnam Era Boomers: Question for you.

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Vietnam Era Boomers: Question for you.
During those years, how obvious was it that the US Left were actively rooting for the USA to lose that war and for the Viet Cong to win that war?

I ask because it is quite obvious to me today that the US Democratic Party is actively rooting for China and trying to damage the USA right now.

So, I'm wondering whether it was quite this obvious back in the day during that very tough war.

Thanks.

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I'm not that old. But, if you go back and read or even just watch television, movies, documentaries, etc. of the 60s and 70s, it's almost humorous to see the same behaviors among the left:

* Anti-Americanism
* Referring to everyone that's not a leftist loon as a fascist, etc.
* Stoking racism claims to control minorities
* Stoking feminism to control women

Conservatives have been carrying these leftist pieces of shite for decades. The best case scenario is we continue to do that.

I’m not sure which was more eerie while watching the 5:30 news each day: Sort of serendipity moments.
— in March 1968, as a high school senior on the safe couch of home, I watched closely while the Marines fought off the NVA during the Siege of Khe Sanh. Almost exactly one year later I was a Marine fighting for my life in and around the same Khe Sanh hillsides.

— in the Spring of 1969 I spent a lot of time patrolling and defending a vibrant Vandegrif Combat Base which was built to replace Khe Sanh. Then, two Springs later on the 5:30 news, again from the safe couch of my home, I watched with disbelief when Russian-made NVA tanks rolled through the same gates that I had defended at Vandegrif.

Those two afternoon TV news events sort of bracketed the history of my youth. I had been the during, between before-and-after events.

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1. You said they destroyed businesses. That's an odd place to put a business in the middle of a vacant field

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No I didn’t. Another poster did. You said they were peaceful. I pointed out evidence to the contrary.

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got despised and spit on.

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I’m very sorry to hear that. You guys deserved so much better.

No protestors fired.

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However, it was when I returned to my “friends” at college or at the local Frostop Drive In that I was met with apathy and distancing. I was never verbally or physically abused. But you could feel the difference. Not being included, snickered at and avoided because you were merely a Vet hurt.

But, they also knew not to spit on me. It wouldn’t have ended well.

Agree, I never saw such abuse happen but I don’t doubt that it may have happened somewhere, sometime. The animosity was palpable.

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for whatever it's worth this is almost exactly what my dad told me his return from there was like. He got back in 1970, and this was in NJ. There was no spitting and no open hostility at all, but there was this complete and total indifference, and you were made aware of the fact that no one wanted to hear a word about the war from you. It was considered beyond the pale to bring it up.

He may have had it better in a way though because he was already out of college. He didn't come home to a campus, he came back to his hometown and started looking for work and hanging out with old friends.

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No protestors fired.

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Not that clear cut.

LINK

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Show me some evidence otherwise. Four Dead in Ohio rang out over Woodstock.

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Four Dead In Ohio...Woodstock....

What would you accept as evidence?

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So an FBI agent posing as a student lets off a round.

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What are you basing that claim on?