[Hon]

Great digging! At the very least it shows the kind of people who were attracted to this organization.

And after all, we're talking about a very small group. At the most they had around 1,000 members. But most of the time it was more like just three or four hundred or so.

[Sabertooth]

Thanks. What intrigues me is Hassna's description of an organization ready to burst like a spore pod of seditious fungus as the Vietnam War wound down. Kerry ended up as a Kennedy-in-training, Senatorial gigolo, but what about the non-Brahmins?

I still haven't learned whether the Stennis shooters were ever apprehended.

[okie01]

"And after all, we're talking about a very small group. At the most they had around 1,000 members. But most of the time it was more like just three or four hundred or so."

Importantly, many weren't even veterans. And not all the veterans had actually done a tour in Viet Nam. Nor had all the Viet Nam veterans in the group even seen combat.

VVAW has no claim whatsoever on the consciousness of the vast majority of Viet Nam veterans. To purport that VVAW was any kind of a "representative group" is to give them (and Kerry) far more credit than they deserve.