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The serious demonizing - with consequences - of the US officer corps
in Vietnam was done by the enlistees and draftees who fragged them.
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The revolt of the American expeditionary force in the war against S.
Vietnam is still a largely-untold story.<br>
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But it's the reason that we don't have a draft anymore. --CGE<br>
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On 8/30/11 8:08 PM, David Green wrote:<br>
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<div>In an otherwise excellent article, William Deresiewicz
refers to the so-called demonizing of our service members in
Vietnam. This retrospective aspersion is lately used by those
on the right who would disparage the protests against the
Vietnam War and their significance. It is bad history. </div>
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<div>Attacking the troops was never a tactic or attitude of an
overwhelming majority of those who opposed the war policy.
Like flag-burning, it was a rarely used tactic of a tiny
minority of extremists. </div>
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<div>Antiwar activists strove to stop the Vietnam War to halt
the senseless deaths of American soldiers as well as
Vietnamese. To besmirch us as hostile to the troops is untrue
and creates a false image of a movement that was first of all
compassionate, and for some of its members heroic as well. </div>
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<div>DAVID SCHWARTZ<br>
Ossining, N.Y., Aug. 21, 2011</div>
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