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In reply to the discussion: Yes DU trends to an older audience. [View all]Tree Lady
(11,973 posts)reminded me of what many boomers went through in the 60's and 70's to get that war to stop. Even Nixon who promised to stop it had to be pushed by millions who protested into it. It finally took the veteran soldiers and officers to make them realize they had to stop.
We were willing to die literally on the streets for what we believed in. I was too young during most of it or I would have been one of them. I started protesting in the 80's for things.
Most of the protesters were called horrible names by the president who thought we were all dirty hippies because many especially in the beginning had long hair but later all types of people joined to stop the war.
The people the kids of today think created where we are now are not us but the same ones we fight now the ignorant, racist, and greedy republicans.