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In reply to the discussion: Still OK to be an old time peacenik around here? [View all]Bo Zarts
(25,392 posts)Watched Kissinger/Nixon's B-52 arc-light bombing missions in Cambodia and Laos from my un-armed electronic-counterwarfare reconnnaissance aircraft. We were flying radio intercept missions. Nixon and Kissinger were bombing areas that we were never snooping in, which means there were no VC, NVA (PAVN), Khmer Rouge, or Pathet Lao there. IMO, Kissenger and Nixon killed an unimaginable number of non-combatants. Don't get me started (of course I am, but I need to stop).
Came back home, spent some time flying military aircraft state-side (trying to stay out of trouble over my outspoken peacenik tendencies), got an early release from active duty .. two years early actually, a release from my flight school obligation, returned to college life with the beard and long hair, and wore my Vietnam fatigue shirt .. and heavier field jacket and really cool (but very warm) Navy leather flight jacket (I was Army but flew Navy aircraft in the 'nam) .. with all the necessary peace and anti-war patches.
I was VVAW, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, back when John Kerry was active. I was a campus anti-war activist at both Auburn and Georgia Tech, two hotbeds of Young Republicans. So, yes Passenger, you are very welcome here. You are among like-minded folks at DU.