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Thread #48038   Message #720292
Posted By: GUEST
30-May-02 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: Anti-Conscription Movement
Subject: RE: Anti-Conscription Movement
And some of us, Lonesome EJ, are still dedicated to the same convictions we held then. Why are you so bitter towards us?

I fail to see how someone yelling "Fuck Nixon and the war!" was a betrayal of the soldiers fighting the war.

Unless you were never sincere about your "objections" to the war, and you've come to believe the government was right, and the anti-war movement was wrong, of course. Then I can understand you do feel you betrayed the men who fought. I would too, if I only was involved in the anti-war movement because the draft and the war interfered with my partying. You are correct, you didn't do much to proud of in the anti-war effort.

But some of us did to something authentic and genuine in our involvment in anti-war efforts. Just like some of our life-long friends and family members did. And continue to do today. And raise our children to follow in our footsteps, not yours or the soldiers'.