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You know, you really had to be there.
We tried everything we knew how to do, we rallied, we protested, there were accountants against the war, and truck drivers against the war, and hairdressers against the war, and still the government bombed vietnam and cambodia, and sprayed agent orange, destroying the people and the land of Vietnam (and our own soldiers).
There was a myth that veterans coming back were spat upon, but this was not something that anyone knew or or discussed at the time.
Veterans turned increasingly against the war, and the government that treated them in an incredible shoddy manner when they returned home.
The armed forces were in shambles, NOT due to the anti-war protesters, but due to the incredibly horrible treatment of people in the armed forces by the government.
Protesters got arrested in thousands, people poured blood over draft files, the Pentagon papers exposed the lies of the government and still the war went on....
It was a time of total desperation. I'm glad no one asked me to join the Weather Underground because I probably would have!
And no, I wouldn't have threatened or killed people, the goal of the Weather Underground was to show in no uncertain terms that we were at war -- not with Vietnam -- but with our own government.
You really had to be there to understand.
Susan McGee
