I respectfully submit that not every civilian protester could have fit this stereotype, and would also point out that Vietnam vets protested, too.
You are right on about hypocrisy, though; there's so much noise made about respecting our vets, but then they get treated horribly in society and have a hard time getting benefits from the government that sent them to fight IN THE FIRST PLACE. Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" (http://www.lyricsdomain.com/2/bruce_springsteen/born_in_the_usa.html) is, contrary to popular assumption, NOT a patriotic anthem, but rather a Vietnam vet's experiences with this kind of thing. It goes back through history, too - one of the poems in my WWI class addresses the same problem.
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I respectfully submit that not every civilian protester could have fit this stereotype, and would also point out that Vietnam vets protested, too.
You are right on about hypocrisy, though; there's so much noise made about respecting our vets, but then they get treated horribly in society and have a hard time getting benefits from the government that sent them to fight IN THE FIRST PLACE. Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" (http://www.lyricsdomain.com/2/bruce_springsteen/born_in_the_usa.html) is, contrary to popular assumption, NOT a patriotic anthem, but rather a Vietnam vet's experiences with this kind of thing. It goes back through history, too - one of the poems in my WWI class addresses the same problem.