re: #193 Justanotherhuman

Well, people like Sirota weren’t even born then, so how can he possibly comment on something like that, except swallow what he reads from a certain perspective?

I was active as a war protestor back then, and I can tell you, in NC circles, and in DC, Phila, and NYC, where I frequented demonstrations, I never saw anything of the sort. In fact, in NC we had vets who participated in our activities.

Another meme is the bra-burning crap. Never saw that, either, until at a party one night in 1971, a group of us were talking about that, and decided to light the BBQ and roast ours. Well, the ones that were wearing them. : )

Mr. w helped organize the 1971 March on Washington. He was in the VVAW. The stupidity of the position that ‘no vet was ever spat upon’, is that if a vet WAS spat upon, it doesn’t mean anything bad about the anti-war movement at the time. They seem to be defending something that needs no defense.

The bra-burning denail is similar. I’m not sure what the denialists are trying to do in that case. It wasn’t common, but I saw it on the news at the time, and you can find photos on the internet of burning bras being dropped into a trash can.