If I am a U.S. soldier doing a combat tour in Vietnam and I come home to find that some dip-sh!t who "gave aid and comfort to the enemy" was not prosecuted by the government that sent me over there in the first place, you can be sure that I'd be extremely p!ssed off -- more so at the f#ckers in my government than at the traitor herself.
At least in the American Revolution the colonials who waged the war had no illusions about their fellow country men. Tories who supported the British during the war were routinely burned out of their homes and chased to Canada or back to Britain.
No argument there.
I suspect the reluctance of the Nixon Administration to prosecute Fonda, Hayden, et al had something to do with the ability of the Left to put 500,000 people on the streets in Washington.