Putting the blame for the babies and the women and old people who were slaughtered and the villages which were burned on the individual soldiers who were involved against their will in most cases, that didn't happen with people who thought it through.

Since you say you saw it happening, it happened. Not that surprising if it did. It takes a lot of thinking through to make the distinctions as to where the real blame lay for things like that, and a lot of time people like simple answers. You see awful things happening on the TV, and you know that there are things happened that were more awful than that, and it'd be easy to feel that those guys in GIs uniforms putting torches to then houses and so forth are the ones who are to blame, and to look at people in the same uniforms and feel angry.

Apply it in Northern Ireland, it's not that easy to see the paratroops who shot down unarmed people on Bloody Sunday as victims more than as villains. But they were, And the real blame for that lay higher up.

But all I've heard and seen and remember from the Vietnam times tells me that the anti-GI stuff was far less than could have been expected. Weekend hippy stuff as Skeptic said. And not typical weekend hippy stuff either. And including some agent provocateurs up to dirty tricks on behalf the warmaking machine as well, I'd be sure of that. And from what I've also heard, returned veterans who got involved in the anti-war movement got some vicious treatment from people who backed the war, at the time, and long after it, and that seems to be forgotten sometimes.