"We all have to put the bad times behind us and help each other in the healing process." And "each other " includes the people who were "on the other side", soldiers fighting on both sides, civilians killed on both sides, refugees driven from their homes on both sides, children still growing up with terrible diseases caused by chemical weapons. Most of these in Vietnam.

And my understanding is that that is what is now happening, after a long shameful period when the powers that be tried to turn their back, both by ignoring the situation of those Vets in America who had been damaged by the war in their ability to cope, and through a boycott of Vietnam and a refusal of any kind of help.

Inevitably, as someone who grew up during the Blitz, my first sympathies were always to the people in the bomb shelters rather than the people doing the bombing, and for me - as for most people in the anti-war movement in England, "Hey Hey LBJ - how many kids did you kill today" was primarily about children in Vietnam rather than about American conscripts, though it was about them as well.

But I never joined in chants of "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, We shall fight and we shall win" - for me the war was the enemy not the soldiers, not the soldiers on either side, and the people in Vietnam I identified with were the ones who opposed the war, and were killed by both sides.