Reply #146: MrBenchley and I do not agree but He's Correct to say the movement

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did not end the Viet Nam war.

That evil war continued for almost a decade after the ant-war movement started - and our efforts did not bring it to an end.

What brought it to an end, was Nixon's Watergate Impeachment.

The last of the troops to come home and end to Congressional funding occurred sometime around 1974/1975 if memory serves. And then we had Viet Nam refugees by the boatloads during Ford and Carter's administrations.

In a way, we're still fighting that war here at home.

Because we in the anti-war movement, never really accomplished our mission in making sure that our foreign policy would never ever again be about pre-emptive invasions, colonialization and occupations under the guise of defeating (insert the bogeyman of the day) "over there, instead of over here".