I want to see what good old Ken has to say about the anti-war movement. It was known then in intelligence circles and somewhat moreso now that Russia paid for a large part of the anti's activeties by passing the money to cutouts in Sweden and then from them to US affiliates. The antis became a fifth column element at home. Also don't anyone take me wrong, the war was fought by half measures and not to win. To my eye Vietnam was Korea but with a very large difference. The west side of Vietnam abutted Cambodia and Laos which allowed for land resupply. Korea had only one path in for Northern soldiers and supply. Johnson didn't let us cut the resupply in Hanoi harbor (Hyphong?). That made a huge difference.
Johnson was a socialist in the Roosevelt model and shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the levers of power. Otherwise this seems to be a pretty balanced presentation. And yes I am old enough to remember all the mess. I was 4F in 1968 with two cousins who went; luckily both returned physically intact. That doesn't say mentally so.
there were a lot of loonies in that antiwar movement, trying to use it for their own purposes. And i have no doubt the communists were funneling money into it. Geez, i reconized that at S.D.S. things at A.S.U. where i was attending at the time. i remember tom hayden and personally debating him at the time. Didn't take long to realize i wanted no part of that. But it didn't take away from the antigovernment feelings, which have never gone away. It's that "trust me" thing, hear that and you shudder. i was 1y at the time, messed up leg from motorcycle, then about 360 on the draft number. I was real stupid, i realized what was happening but i still tried to enlist figuring it was the only way i could DO something. Couldnl't pass the physical, they told me i wouldn't live to be 30. I will be 70 in december. some of my friends who did pass the physical didn't make it to age 20
