[Steely Tom]

When soldiers came home from Vietnam, they were spat on by the Libs and called “Baby Killers”.

It was that story... specifically, a news story about how some returning soldiers were spat upon at JFK airport, in 1970 or '71... that caused me to think my very first conservative thought. At first I thought "that's not fair!" Then, after thinking about it some more, I thought "that's really an awful thing to have done."

I was 15 or 16 years old, and I remember it distinctly. A lot of kids in my high school styled themselves as "antiwar" and hippies. That was pretty much the prevailing attitude among my suburban classmates, although the kids from the more rural areas didn't agree.

So by thinking it was wrong to spit on our soldiers, I was venturing into the counter-counterculture, for the first time in my life.

[fr_freak]

It was that story... specifically, a news story about how some returning soldiers were spat upon at JFK airport, in 1970 or '71... that caused me to think my very first conservative thought.

I'm too young to remember that era, but upon learning about it, the first thought I had was "Why would they spit on the soldiers? The soldiers aren't that ones that decided to invade Vietnam! Hell, some were drafted against their will." I understood that sentiment even more when I went in.

The hippies should have been spitting on the politicians that sent the military there, but it was an early example of how people in power do bad things and then sip cocktails together and laugh while the proles are suckers enough to fight each other in the streets over it.

Always direct your outrage at the true source.