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My husband went to Vietnam and served with the Air Police in Bien Hoa. He came back to the states and joined the Police Department. Not too long after that he was injured in the riots at UCSB when the Bank of America was burned by protestors. The violence that erupted across the nation at campuses of Universities was something that is hard to forget, but especially for those of us who saw our guys wounded on both fronts....in Vietnam and then here. Some were spat upon and humiliated. Authority was challenged and the Fonda ilk was there to litter our landscape with their filth and condemnation. To think that these people are being voted into office by supposedly "thinking" human beings is a joke. We must never forget Vietnam. We must never forget the Fonda's and the Clinton's and all of those who have brought such strife to our society. Sam! Please keep this up. Do Kent State. Do Bank of America. The Chicago 7. Hayden. Fonda. People need to remember and understand. And no one can highlight this stuff like you do. :)

People need to remember and understand.

Not to give you false hope for "the road ahead", but here are two observations I've
made in the last couple of days.

Sunday night, a couple hundred folks gathered at the Federal Building in West Los Angeles
for an anti-Iraq-war protest.
It took me a few minutes after seeing the report on two local news stations that
most of the protestors were...old. And this is when UCLA is in session...and they
couldn't get a huge contingent of students.
This is NOT like the Vietnam "days of rage" campus protest era.

Secondly, I heard an interview with Senator-elect Norm Coleman of Minnesota. He emphasized
that the core strength of his campaign staff was a huge contingent of 20-and 30-somethings.

I'm no demographer...but I get the feeling that the issue of keeping the country
stable and safe has pulled in lots of the younger generation...thanks to 9-11...
and seeing a President and a party that wouldn't fold in fighting back.

Just my amateur observations...