Daveinyork...you are forgiven.
You were just a young, arrogant dummy like most of us were at some point. It is like partying and drinking to excess.
Oh, wait...
I may be forgiven, but, there are all the POW’s who were stuck in Hanoi all those years, and tortured. There are all those millions of people who suffered and died under Communisms yoke in Southeast Asia. I may have grown up, but, how does one make it up to all those people who suffered while we, the effete, impudent, snobs, who characterized ourselves as intellectuals, gave aid and comfort to the enemy? After all, the war was not lost in Southeast Asia. It was lost in the opinion polls in the US. We helped in that effort.