This is the real story of the MSM in America. They got away with their crap in the 60's and it's been downhill since. Modern "liberalism"--how sad for this country.

P.S. Thank God for our troops. God bless them all. 

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

were issued to me by the US Navy and I was proud to wear them.

Jack - former shipfitter 1st.

As one who was at Woodstock, I can tell you that nobody there had anything resembling an accurate picture of what was really going on in Vietnam.  In addition, some attendees had already done their tour or tours and were trying to enjoy the lifestyle that they had risked their lives to defend.  Once Walter Cronkite had lied to America about the outcome of Tet, and since the media was uniformly against our mission in Vietnam, many just tuned out.

Don't blame those who went there for responding to the information with which they had been programmed by the totalitarian media of that time.

I was 17 in 1969.  Two of my brothers served with the Marines in Viet Nam.  I despised the left then and despise it still today.  Woodstock revealed the moral bankruptcy of American liberals, a bankruptcy that has only deepened over the past four decades and continues unabated today.  My entire lifetime has seen the left actively engaging in the destruction of the American republic.  Republicans have been impotent as a party in stopping it, slowing it, or even resisting it.  We have been spiraling down for decades and I confess I have little hope that this decline will end, for I see no statesmen in Washington, no leaders with real principles or courage.  People say, "God bless America."  I pray, "God save the United States."

Thanks for posting this Colleen.  I have no idea what college professors who wear Che shirts teach about Vietnam, but it probably isn't good.  Was it a good war or a just war?  People will have to make up their own minds on that.  It's been debated many times, but what isn't debatable is the way Vietnam Vets have been stereotyped and how they were treated when they returned.  We're supposed to believe that the fighting they experienced was the worst thing ever.  In WWI people were using poison gas, in WWII soldiers were using flame throwers in the S. Pacific to root out Japanese soldiers.  At Antietam the bloodiest day in American history fighting both the South and North faced an incredible number of casulaties.  But somehow since the Americans were fighting "precious" Communists, the left wing college professors who wear Che shirts would have us believe that these soldiers were horrible and rotten and don't have the skills to succeed in life.  False, in fact most Vietnam Vets returned and have become very valuable members of society, and helped raise families, and were good fathers.  I know because my father is a Vietnam Vet, and was in the military.  I grew up on military posts, and most of my friend's dads were also Vietnam Vets.  They were good fathers and very valuable members of society.  They weren't drug addicts or having flashbacks every 10 minutes and they didn't turn into Rambo.  Now did PSTD happen? Sure, but soldiers coming back from WWII also had very tramautic experiences too, but since we were fighting "precious" Communists in Vietnam, everything has to be taught that the S. Vietnamese were bad and that the VC/NVA were all good.  It was the Communist NVA that broke the truce and invaded S. Vietnam in 1975, not the other way around.  There were never large numbers of S. Vietnamese going to Communist N. Vietnam either.  If the Communists had the utopian society Fonda and friends made it out to be, why did so many S. Vietnamse flee after the Communists took over?  The answer is that the Communists aren't the swell and awesome people that so called human rights acitivists who like to badmouth the United States make them out to be.  Is it just me or do the Che shirt wearers who build themselves up as human rights activist have little concern for the S. Vietnamese who fled?

http://www.searac.org/vietref.html