[BuffaloJack]

> Ken Burns portrays the young soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of the Vietnam War as pot-smoking, drug-addicted, hippie marauders.<

Sorry Burns, we had no pot-heads, drug addicts, hippies or anyone else who truly didn’t want to be there in my unit. Any that occasionally sifted in simply didn’t last long, so we never had to worry about them.

[liberalism is suicide]

I don’t recall seeing any while I was on Vietnam, but I know there were “antiwar” activists in the stateside army. When I was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas there was a guy in my barracks with a treasonous periodical called “Your Military Left”.

[redcatcherb412]

Sorry Burns, we had no pot-heads, drug addicts, hippies or anyone else who truly didn’t want to be there in my unit. Any that occasionally sifted in simply didn’t last long, so we never had to worry about them

So very true. In our Air Mobile company of Light Infantry we could with pretty close guesswork determine if a FNG that drew a peace symbol on his helmet or griped anti war pablum constantly would last more than a few firefights or air mobile assaults on a hot LZ.