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On another thread, a mopey liberal writes about the boomers being "the greediest generation." Not all of them. The American men and women who went to Viet Nam played a critical role in preventing the fullscale communist conquest of the Pacific rim. They did so by fighting in some of the most hostile environs imaginable, against an enemy who's ire had been greatly provoked for the prior decade by French Foreign Legionaires, many of them nazi's fleeing their own names.

When they came home, other members of their own generation who were too enlightened to fight spat on, shat on, and slandered them. The elected officials who had hung the vets out to dry, then had the unmitigated gall to solicit their votes, which, with a drop in the voting age, gave the left side of the boomer generation unprecedented power.

The height of esteem in which I hold our Viet Nam veterans is matched only by the depth of my contempt for the protestors. The ideological left is never any good for America, but with the numbers and power they had in this era, they did to American Culture and Society what a swarm of locusts does to a corn field.

The vast majority of contemporary American maladies, be they economic, spiritual, moral or cultural can be laid directly in the lap of the 60's-70's left.

The elected officials who had hung the vets out to dry, then had the unmitigated gall to solicit their votes

That's my explanation for the current "we support the troops" lie mouthed by the anti-war crowd.

They know vets and their relatives will vote for the rest of their lives and try to cover their anti-Americanism with that trite lie.