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The first thing we did once we got off the airplane, whether or not we were on leave (flying military stand-by: a lot cheaper, ya know) or coming back to The World from an overseas assignment, was get out of our uniforms. I was harassed at L.A. International Airport in 1971. I was called names. And the most hateful and rabid of the "protesters" were the young women, ranging in age from about 18 - 24 or so. They were out-of-control. They were so rabid that spittle would fly from their lips as they sneered and shouted their obscenities at us. They were not in a crowd, but usually travelled in groups of five or six. Real skanks. Unshaved underarms, the whole gig. Real losers.

Do you remember that movie "Coming Home," with Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, and Jane Fonda? Probably one of the best parts of the movie, is when Dern (who plays an active duty Marine Officer), becomes aware that his wife (Fonda) has taken to bouts of infidelity with Voight(a disabled Vietnam Vet.) When he confronts her about this, she tries to explain herself in a sniveling manner. He produces a rifle barrel with a bayonet attachment, and says: "YOU SHUT UP, YOU SLOPE C%$T!" If only people would say that to her today.