Reply #20: I think it was the television coverage that was responsible for the ...

[SidDithers]

overwhelming non-support. I'm not speaking from experience, I was too young, and I would certainly defer to the DU vets like TahitiNut, Mountainman and saigon68, who obviously know the situation much more intimately than most of us here.

Having the war brought home into the living room. Seeing the death and destruction while eating dinner every night. Seeing the caskets returning to Dover AFB. I think it was images like those that really personalized the Vietnam war to the average American family.

And I believe that is why we've seen such tight control and manipulation of the stories and images of conflicts since then, culminating with the "embedding" of reporters during last spring's invasion.

Sid