The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47337   Message #705674
Posted By: Big Mick
06-May-02 - 10:42 PM
Thread Name: Hanoi Jane - any songs?
Subject: RE: Hanoi Jane - any songs?
Yeah, Steve. You said it better than I did. This stuff causes such a welling up of feelings. On one hand I couldn't understand how one would not understand why these folks engender such intense feelings. On the other hand, I am sick to death of folks oversimplifying the time. I find it hard to hate Fonda, when so many I knew and had as friends hated it all too. Hell, Steve, how many did you know while you were in country that didn't believe in the war? Folks that try to turn it all into either a red, white and blue loyalty test bother me every bit as much as those that think it was all right to support the folks that were shooting at me. I would have preferred that they would have confined their activity to trying to get our government out of there, as opposed to literally assisting the "enemy". But even that isn't a black and white issue.

Hard to talk about even now, eh, bro?

Mick