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Thread #98473   Message #1950650
Posted By: Barry Finn
28-Jan-07 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Parental reaction to Viet Nam protests
Subject: RE: BS: Parental reaction to Viet Nam protests
My Step dad never mentioned the war but had no trust in government thought it was the flip side to the Mafia. My mother hated the war with a passion, my older brother was a seal. My sister & I both marched & proteseted & my mother approved. My Father was a decorated vet & was badly wounded at Guadacanal, he was also dead aganst the war & oftenmy sister would meet up with him at different rallies & marches. Today, our family still feels as strongly as we did back then (those of us that are still alive). My brother can back from Viet Nam but was never right (I believe survivors guilt & he's still out on survivor's leave) but he returned with a hate for that war & that government that sent him into Cambodia & Laos & hates that government that would send his kids to another.

Barry