Reply #22: Thanks for that link

[plaguepuppy]

I am so tired of hearing that crap. I was involved in the antiwar movement before it was crushed by COINTELPRO, and my experience was the exact opposite: there was a strong element of real support for the troops in the antiwar movement, not as some abstraction but as real people who had been through horrendous experiences and were trying to make sense of it all. I was involved in a GI coffeehouse in Cambridge, and also found myself playing the same role for a friend who had dropped out of college and got drafted. And oddly enough, even though he did his service stateside he was treated as something of a scary outsider by society at large when he came back.

There was no agenda of recruiting these guys or trying to use them as grist for some political game, just a genuine urge to help the victims of the war who happened to be our contemporaries. To the people I knew and worked with this "spitting" nonsense amounts to a blood libel.