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Originally posted by Kindred_Spirit:
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Originally posted by EdEKit:
No, I have not heard the Ballad of the Queen Beret. I was working as a newcaster on a rock station for most of the Vietnam thing. I don't recall much gratituous insulting of troops at that station. BUT I SURE AS THERE IS A SUN IN THE SKY REMEMBER THE ANTI WAR SENTIMENT.


Me too, Ed... it was a SAD SAD SAD thing to see on TV and to read in the news... after our Troops gave all they could give, they came home to a bunch of idiots that blamed THEM for being in Vietnam... Those were the days that we didn't even CONSIDER the Political leaders were responsible.

Makes me just sad to remember all that Anti-War crap that went on... for what seemed like forever!

Kindred, you sound like you are about the age of my little sister(s). Two of them got facial scars in anti-war protests. The youngest is now a Surgical Nurse, and Licensed Attorney. She is also the first woman to complete cullinary apprenticeship in Arizona. The Middle one is a Regional Director of a State Environmental Department Office. The eldest is a state coordinator of Volunteers of the Girl Scouts, and former Mayor of a town in New Hampshire. Her facial scar is from falling into the running board of a parked '38 Packard. Some of us are a lot older than you.
NOT ONE OF THEM, EVER INSULTED A RETURNING GI. I was involved in DOZENS OF WAR PROTESTS. I never heard a chant of "Baby Killer" directed at returning servicemen, but, I did hear a lot of questions tossed at government officials, Like "What the (deleted)are we fighting for" and "Killing Babies makes me ill" Now, if the propogandists of the day wanted to change that to an insult to CONSCRIPTED TROOPS SENT TO KILL AND MAIM IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY, so be it. THE INSULTS WERE AIMED AT THE GOVERNEMNT. ANY SOLDIER WHO TOOK THEM PERSONALLY WAS SUPPORTING THE GOVERNMENT.

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