[GingisK]

Oh, now I understand your viewpoint. Maybe this has to do with the 60s hippies now in TV-show roles. They were anti-war and anti-vet to the point of being very poisonous. They merely carried that into their careers, and it remains targeted at their own age group. It appears their hard feelings do not extend to the veterans of previous wars or even recent ones.

Hippy types can never be confused with deep thinkers.

[ansel12]

Aside from how you misuse the word hippie, the Vietnam vets were treated much, much worse by the old writers and TV executives of the late 60s and 1970s, when they were almost always portrayed as mentally unstable and sniper killers.

Did you know that the strongest support for the Vietnam War was from the under 30 age group, an age group that voted 52% for Nixon in 1972?