I think a lot of us felt this way. It's why support for the Gulf War and GH Bush soon exploded.
That first week after the U.S. air attacks began we started to see the filthy vermin protesting on the TV. It was a Tuesday as I recall. They gathered at protest-central, the Federal Building on Wilshire Blvd. in LA. All week those of us with jobs could just watch and fume.
I was involved with the LA County Young Republicans at the time. A bunch of us decided to plan counter-protest for the first weekend. Every night that week after I got off work I drove from the San Fernando Valley down to the South bay where we planned and made signs and put together our counter protest.
That first Saturday we began our protest, just 20 or 30 of us on the narrow strip across Wilshire. By the end of the day there were 250 people on our side. The next week we beat the hippies to the permit office and WE got the permit for the lawn. We started with a couple hundred and by the end of the day there were thousands on our side. By the third week, the hippies started to slink away and yellow ribbons were popping up all over the country.
Man those were the days.
A black woman activist in our neighborhood encouraged everone to put yellow ribbons around all the trees on the block. They stayed until our son came home. At election time she had Jessie Jackson visit our block and us for a photo op. He also came in April 1991 for the welcome home block party and met our son. How things change.