[Peace-discuss] Letter to NYT

[C. G. Estabrook]

The serious demonizing - with consequences - of the US officer corps in Vietnam 
was done by the enlistees and draftees who fragged them.

The revolt of the American expeditionary force in the war against S. Vietnam is 
still a largely-untold story.

But it's the reason that we don't have a draft anymore.  --CGE


On 8/30/11 8:08 PM, David Green wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/opinion/what-do-we-seek-in-those-who-serve.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss 
> <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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