We've all seen the pictures of the radical hippies that make fools of themselves and are of such low mental stock that they blame soldiers for doing their duty. But I think this is such a small percentage of the population that they should not even deserve a footnote in our history. I know a lot of people against the war but I have never heard even one of them say the least disrespectful thing against any soldier. I think this is much ado about little.
I think most people for the war are of the opinion that if anyone is against it, they must be against the troops fighting it. Nothing could be farther from the truth. But that sentiment is so common that Thud even asked outright if it was the norm. Yeager said the ratio is 40/60 but from my experience I think it's actually closer to 1/99. Take any anti war rally early in the war and count the people in the rally against all the other people in that city and I dare say you would come in at way less than one percent of the population. Today you would find even less of a fraction than that.
On this board we've had maybe one or two radicals who would stoop so low as to criticize someone serving their country, but I haven’t seen that for quite a while now. The vocal anti-war personalities in this very thread like Nash, Beet & MT, have never to my knowledge said anything in the least disrespectful of any soldier.
Where does all this hostility come from? Is it left over from the Vietnam era? That era is over, lets move on. Anti-war does not equal anti-soldier anymore.
