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Originally Posted by stoneric
Since I lived it I don't have to rely on hollywood or you to tell me how it was.
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Did you serve? I'm just asking because two of my uncles did. One was killed in 1968 and the other was wounded in 1971. It nearly tore my mother's family apart. Both opposed the war. My uncle who survived is currently a military recruiter (the Army reserves). He has told me about what it was like back then to the smallest detail (not the least of which is his unflattering opinion of the counter-culture movement). I convinced him to be 100% candid with me because I told him it was for my final report in High school. One thing that I thought was cool was that he admitted to smoking weed over there.
His current position on Vietnam is that we shouldn't have gone in but the way that many people in the anti-war movement acted actually led to more deaths. That's not to say that any person who opposed the war should have kept their mouths shut. However, there's a responsible way to protest and stand up for what you believe without trying to bring down the country whose freedoms you're exploiting. People like Jane Fonda never understood that.
***I really don't want to get in a debate with you. I don't particularly like you very much, to be honest. We got into a debate some months ago and you called me every name under the sun. All I did was voice a fairly moderate position of Iraq and you tried painting me as a right-wing, foaming-at-the-mouth war hungry zealot. Apparently, I wasn't far enough to the Left for your tastes.***
P.S. Playing the "
I was alive back then so my opinion is superior to yours" is extremely lame. The only reason you were around back then before I was born is because your parents fucked before my parents did. The only reason you probably think that the hippies ended the War is because you were one of those hippies. Those seem to be the only people who have the nerve to suggest such bullshit.