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To: ManyMoose who wrote (63770)5/6/2008 3:07:39 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542233
 
Many Moose;

Who was marching in the streets, staging sit-ins, and generally misbehaving?

Kids. Students! Rational people who didn't understand why we were there. In case you forget, the reason we were in VietNam was to halt the march of communism. If VietNam fell we were told other countries would fall one after another. It was crazy thinking then and especially so today with the advantage of hind sight. Communism never became the evil world domination that we were told it would unless we stayed in the "meat grinder" constantly feeding American men to the slaughter.

steve



To: ManyMoose who wrote (63770)5/6/2008 6:40:19 PM
From: KonKilo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542233
 
Who was marching in the streets, staging sit-ins, and generally misbehaving? My generation.

Yes, it was my generation too.

But I don't see how all that hippie behavior caused us to pull out of Nam.