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Originally Posted by bobbymitch
I am personally pleased to see that our veterans are given some measure of thanks for their service to the country.
I remember the days of being despised while in uniform and how dangerous it was being out in public, especially in California. We pretty much had to change in civies at a locker club for some sense of normality off the base. Hell, I was treated better by the elder Japanese than I was in Long Beach.
Of all the countries that I have been to, the only one still truly grateful for US soldiers/sailors was Australia. One couldn't buy a beer there; someone always stepped in and paid.
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I never understood the treatment of soldiers in that era. Most were draftees, not volunteers. They didn't declare a war, or keep an unpopular war going. They were just foot soldiers doing their job.
I know the concept, they couldn't get access to Nixon to yell at him, spit on him so they took their anger out on the joe soldier they could see on the street. But, I still don't see how the displacement of anger helped them. Did they really blame the grunt soldiers for the war in Vietnam?