I watched last night. Over and over again the vets interviewed said they went into the Marines to serve our country.
They were pretty balanced on the Pro war protests—which we not as large or loud as their opposite parties.
I think no one is going to a good job describing what went on for those years. Hindsight is twenty twenty.
In the end, we need to be careful to maintain support of those serving, while speaking out about being a guy walking around with a hammer, hitting everything. And then trying to rebuild it in our image.
I love the vets and I respect our military very deeply.
I despise the government that sends them to do our dirty work.
One thing that stood to me was when Joint Chiefs told LBJ to mine the North Vietnam Harbors and attack HO Chi Min trail in Cambodia and Loas in 1966. LBJ said no. Nixon listened to them when he became President and North Vietnam came to the bargaining table.
I watched parts of it and while they give the “official” NVA side the it surprised me how they slammed the “peace movement”
It said the peaceniks didn’t grow until the lower classes run out of warm bodies and blacks started to grumble about their losses. This meant the college aged middle class started getting drafted and they didn’t want to go.
It wasn’t so much “anti war” as “don’t mess with my lifestyle” protest.
I despise the government that sends them to do our dirty work. (and then fails to provide them support and the firepower to get the job done quick.)