Growing up in America: Trying to Stop the War
the Vietnam war years from LBJ`s big buildup in early 1965 until the bitter end in Spring 1975...so long ago and so very much still with us...so much blood, so much suffering, so much devastation, so much treasure squandered in our country`s brutal effort to subjugate&control an agrarian people on the other side of the earth, freely using our incredible technological might and freely sacrificing the blood of our young men in our Crusade against Communism[=the Cold War]... this was the one time in my life when I was a fanatic, when I couldn`t talk with anyone, friends and strangers alike, for even a few minutes without ranting and raving on and on about the war...many years later, long after the war had ended, someone I was close to and with whom I had years before shared my fanaticism-against-the-war with [it had felt great too!] became quite a fanatical feminist...and I saw how extremely narrowing & limiting to one`s consciousness fanaticism can really be and, indeed, realized that it had been that way for me during the war years...so I was wrong about the fanaticism part, but certainly correct in my evaluation of the war...also I had thought the Vietnam War was somehow historically unique, a single terrible episode, but I was just very ignorant of human history at the time....but I still wonder why Peace and Love have not had more of an effect on human history??? What`s wrong with us???
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| a U.S. WW I medallion that belonged to my Uncle, a veteran of The Great War For Civilization |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~images from the 60s anti-Vietnam War Protest~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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What motivated many of us in our opposition to the War
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