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Originally Posted by mickey100
Wow, quite a bit of generalization about the anti-war movement, untrue to say the least. To characterize the peace movement as a bunch of people who became pot and heroin addicted, well what can one say.
Many in the peace movement were students, mothers, or anti-establishment hippies, but there was also involvement from many other groups, including educators, clergy, academics, journalists, lawyers, physicians (such as Benjamin Spock), military veterans, and ordinary Americans. On October 15, 1969, the Vietnam Moratorium attracted millions of Americans. To imply that all these peace loving Americans became heroin addicts mooching off the government is just laughable.
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I wrote about two distinctly different groups within the war protest movement, which by the way, did warrant protest. The difference I noted was between those who were
disciplined and kept off the streets as teens by their parents/grandparents/teachers,
and those who were not and had no rules from parents. Sad to say, I have high-school and college classmates, and distant relatives, who fit the description of your last sentence above, perfectly. And I have others who were peace-loving, war protesting students who got it, and grew up and learned to live under the wisdom and authority of their teachers, bosses and employers.