People who protested the war in Vietnam in 1969 were not against the war, they were against having to go there and get shot at. They were, by the definition of the word, COWARDS!!!!.
There was nothing noble about what they did.
Those who organized the protests were not anti-war.
They just thought we were fighting for the wrong side.
Bullshit!It was an abomination.If I had to go I would have made Lt. Calley look like a saint because if it moved I would have killed it.When I got back I would have made it a mission to kill those who sent me there.This is a stain on American history.The reason it didn’t end in victory is they drafted too many college (smart) kids into the armed forces who said FK you when they said go down this path.
Well that and the fact that we were getting involved in a civil war in a rinky dink country where we had no national interest what so ever. After 50,000 Americans died we turned tail and ran and the civil war resolved itself pretty much like it would have had we never set foot there.
I never held it agains’t the guys who said no I’m not going to get conscripted to go get shot at for no good reason. If they had refused to go to Hawaii to repel a Chinese invasion I would have felt differently.
We are now in Afghanistan doing the same thing with less casualties and a voluntary army. But in the end we will leave having accomplished nothing and Afghanistan will go back to its 7th century existence as though we had never set foot there.