When protests became a ’thing, I was a middle aged observer. While I agreed with the basic purpose, I was very upset at one truly erroneous responses to the Viet Nam War, i.e., the crowds who vilified returning military personnel, as if it were their fault for all of it.
Our military did not begin the process of declaring a war and they did not have the power to refuse to serve when called. They never have. That’s up to the pols.
Protestors’ targets should have been the pols who started the whole thing on a whim and continued it, despite overwhelming evidence that we should never have become involved. They should have boycotted their sessions and voted them out of office at the next election. That didn’t happen. Tragic.
When protests became a ’thing, I was a middle aged observer. While I agreed with the basic purpose, I was very upset at one truly erroneous responses to the Viet Nam War, i.e., the crowds who vilified returning military personnel, as if it were their fault for all of it.
Our military did not begin the process of declaring a war and they did not have the power to refuse to serve when called. They never have. That’s up to the pols.
Protestors’ targets should have been the pols who started the whole thing on a whim and continued it, despite overwhelming evidence that we should never have become involved. They should have boycotted their sessions and voted them out of office at the next election. That didn’t happen. Tragic.