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Originally Posted by BMFMonoxide
I'm sorry but that's total bullshit. The hippies were just an annoying pimple on the ass of the anti-war movement. Opinion only turned entirely against the war when regular everyday people were fed up with it. "Everyday people" as in people who didn't identify themselves with any sort of counter-culture movement. They weren't fed up with it because of the zonked-out activists....they were fed up because they were seeing people from their own communities come home dead and wounded without a clear reason why we were over there. It's as simple as that. I'm tired of the hippies trying to take credit for ending the war. It's just revisionist history that people have actually bought into because of how Hollywood has produced Vietnam movies.
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Since I lived it I don't have to rely on hollywood or you to tell me how it was.