[grania]

I enjoyed YAF meetings my first few years in college. When they supported the VietNam War, it just dind’t meet my idea of conservative and I lost interest.

[CondorFlight]

A lot of YAFers also became Youth for Goldwater members in ‘64.

Of course, they lost (Johnson was unbeatable, given the circumstances); instead we got the Great Society,
which produced massive welfare and the disintegration
of the inner-city family, among other things;

an indecisive overseas military intervention (a textbook lesson in how to lose a military confrontation);

an indecisive response to the “turn on, drop out” mentality (the exponents of which went on to become present-day faculty at our universities);

and many other ills.

[Agamemnon]

I grew up in Rhode Island in the '60's and my parents were big into YAF at the time -- especially during the 1964 election. Also did the New England Rally for God Family and Country at the Statler Hilton in Boston over 4th of July celebrations 1965-1974. YAF had a booth at the annual Rally too

I don't know that YAF "supported" the VietNam War as much as they and we at the Rally called for "No More Koreas. WIN in VietNam!"

With author of Black and Conservative and journalist, George Schuyler at “Victory in the Sky” July 4, 1970 (I’m in the yellow windbreaker)

FReegards!