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I too was at Grant Park in 1968. In fact, it was where I met my wife.
One of the things I remember about Vietnam is that we dropped the equivalent of one ton of TNT for every 16 square feet of the entire country.
What has constantly amazed me is how hard it is for people in our counry to see how warlike we are, as a nation. If you go back through our history, it is hard to find any appreciable period when we have not been warlike somewhere.
Holding ourselves out as peaceable and stalwarts of free and fair elections is mythical.
