re: #230 Lidane

For the Lizards who might remember, is this reaction and hate against Bergdahl anything like what Vietnam veterans were getting from people when they came home? I’m having a hard time thinking of a time that I’ve ever seen a POW being treated as if he was a serial killer who should have been left to rot with his captors.

I asked my mom about that one time. She was a true DFH back in the day, wearing tie dye and going to peace rallies. She said no one she knew ever spit on or yelled at or was hostile in any way to the returning vets. She said they were people their age, their siblings and people they knew, and many were in horrible shape from the war (and she still knows many Vietnam vets, some still not in good shape, so I believe it). They were horrified and sad - not mean and hostile.