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Originally Posted by kcdusk
I dont understand why the public took out their frustrations on the fighting men. Was it just a continuation of a sorry affair? Was it misguided? Or was there more to it?
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Some of it was political, some of it was ignorance, some of it was mean-spirited snobbery. I'm sure there were other possibilities. (Statement of no personal knowledge: I'm way too young to have been a participant; my dad was in the Army, but Stateside and mostly out of uniform 1964-1970.) I think a chunk of it had to be that protesters couldn't reach "The Man," but they could take it out on individual service members when they found them.