[Peace-discuss] Letter to NYT

[David Green]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/opinion/what-do-we-seek-in-those-who-serve.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
 
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. 
 
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. 
 
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. 
 
DAVID SCHWARTZ
Ossining, N.Y., Aug. 21, 2011
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