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These actions were contrived by the antiwar protesters. Normally they hung around airports and bus stations in groups of 15-20. The objective was to provoke the vets. to violence or retaliation and prove we were criminal. There was always a liberal reporter to report any misdeeds by Vets in the vicinity. Soldiers were also under orders not to respond or they would be court marshaled. When I went on leave our routes had to be approved. You could not even go through a collage town unless you lived there and you had to travel in civvies unless it was a station change. And yes there were newscasts of this, and Kerry's testimony, protest rallies, Fonda and Kerry, pictures of celbs in Nam. and protesters confronting Vets. Somehow over the last thirty years these things have been sanitized just like Kerry's book. Try to find a copy. The one thing that couldn't be sanitized is us but there was success in brainwashing you. You seek to prove your point with evidence from other liberals to no avail. You refuse the truth you have just witnessed. A traitor and leader of one of these groups has just been defeated on this very issue. Do you really think the American people would have stood by and let this self proclaimed hero go down in flames if he was legit. Americans love their heroes and stick by them. Kerry did not pass the test because of the activity he incited and condoned. Nothing, not Bush, not any party could have brought all the Swiftboat Vets. and Vets together to defeat Kerry except that we remember the spitting, the protesters and the lies. It is you who lie unknowing or not, destroy the evidence, and twist the truth. Vets fought for this country so that you, yes even you have the right to spew your lies and hate. A religious person might forgive you but I am not religious and I and other Vets. will never compromise. I now see the hate rising that I experience then and it is being pushed by people like you. I am 63 and one day when my son returnes from Iraq I will be at the airport to meet him as a father and a civilian. In the event of vile protests from the left no quarter will be ask and none will be given. Screaming Eagle

You are right.

By the late 60s/early 70s, I was out of San Francisco and living in Marin County. The term "Baby Killers" was graffitied on signs. The recent "UC Berkeley grads" had come to teach in our schools. What I got to see, is not what the libs hoped anyone would notice:

That while the hostiles were screaming "Baby Killers" at the military -- the same Hostiles were promoting real baby killing in America: Abortion. I felt almost buried by the assault on our culture. Most were focused on Vietnam (and all); but few saw the slippage and misuse of the term "Baby Killers" and how it was being red-herringed while something else called "Choice" was being born.. and how did the Hostiles erect "abortion" amid anti-Military epiteths?

Men, particularly, white men are... evil, they oppress women, and they kill babies. Feminists in the SF Bay Area MSM were busy claiming that right to kill babies, for themselves.

I was young. And I saw it come down. I was living in the eye of a storm.