I do hope your animosity towards her doesn't cover something that didn't happen.
It doesn't; no matter how divided our country was then 'we were at war' and going to the enemy was not just publicity it was aiding and abetting propaganda and
is treason. If she had renounced her citizenship and moved to Viet Nam I would probably respect her; definitely not hold any animosity to her.
I went to a high school friend's funeral who was KIA there. This young female person who I might have been attracted to told my friends grieving mother her son deserved to die. I was with his High School friends and few of us owned a suit so I wore my Dress Blues; she picked on me saying how many babies did I kill to get the two rows of ribbons on my chest (
BTW: The only one I was proud of was my Good Conduct Medal). I fixed air conditioning and refrigerators; didn't ever hurt anyone, just got my draft notice and scurried down and enlisted in the Air farce.
I was aware the POW story was malarkey while I was in graduate school (
Shortly after Saigon Fell) If you read past the refuting of the email in snopes to the very end I could be that vet who waited in line 90 minutes (Except I don't chew). I also won't wait 15 seconds let alone 90 minutes express my dislike for that traitor. (
I think we should have hung her in 1972, maybe 73 after a fair trail).
Protesting the war has nothing to do with it but
there is a right way and a wrong way. Having the courage of your convictions is the right way and I respect people like Eugene Debs and
Jeannette Rankin - The lady I most respect for protesting the Viet Nam war, also opposed our involvement in the Great War where she as a member of Congress (Before the 19th Amendment) and chose not to run again for Congress because she had let down her State of Montana. She ran again in 1940, was elected and was the only person to vote against going to war with japan after the day of infamy. Again, having let down her State of Montana she didn't run again. In 1969 she was back in DC, not as Congresswoman but as a protestor at what I think (Not sure) was the biggest anti-war rally. If I could have got leave from where I was that summer, I would have been there also.
I served because I am an American, no other reason. My personal thoughts we had no business there from 1955 till Saigon Fell.
I attribute much of the mean spirited attitude toward the military, the viciousness of the likes of the blonde female at my friends funeral, the fact that I felt like a second class citizen in my own country for several years and even that the first time I got thanked for my four years honorable service to our country was after GW left office to the likes of the those like the Traitor Bitch and especially the Traitor Bitch herself.