![]() ![]() ![]() Unbelievably, the Bush administration opposesand has even threatened to vetoan updated GI Bill for Iraq Now support open-ended war as long as someone else’s children or young President Dick Cheney, who avoided military service during Vietnam but The so-called “chicken hawks,” President George W. But, in fact, war boosters are often the ones who The primary means through which we avoided their fate.Ĭlaims about the inhumanity of those who oppose wars toward those whoįight them are intentional distortions to try to discredit protestersĪs unpatriotic. Protected by college or marriage deferments, which in those days were Were kids we’d grown up with who weren’t as fortunate as we were to be The last thing we wanted to do was to make their lives harder. Put them through horrors that would take them a long time to get over. Veterans who were lucky enough to make it home, we knew our country had Mostly women, children, infants and the elderly. ![]() WilliamĬalley, who ordered the murder of as many as 500 My Lai villagers, Soldiers who intentionally committed atrocities, such as Lt. Also earning our contempt were a few specific Sent more than 58,000 young Americans to their deaths in that immoralĪnd unnecessary war. In the ’60s, our contempt was primarily aimed at theĬommanders-in-chief, Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, who Stories about servicemen in uniform encountering a tsunami ofĮxpectoration upon returning from Southeast Asia. War and didn’t spit on a single soldier, I have never believed those ![]()
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