Reply #10: I remember the atmosphere you and Ksec remember. [View All]

I was in high school in the late 60s and early 70s. I lived in a pretty Republican town and attended a high school with about 1600 students. Some fellow students enlisted or were drafted, while most students were against the war. But there was no (yeah, NO) animosity or division between the two sides; in fact, people didn't think of the issue in those terms. Those who enlisted or were drafted and didn't resist were respected for making that difficult choice, and given best wishes from the rest of us that they would come out of it alive. There was a great deal of tolerance, and it seemed to me that we were all on the same team, the team called Our Generation Has to Deal With This. The students against the war were against the administration and the war itself, not the troops.

Editing to add that the only spit I ever saw was that frothing at the mouth of some in the "older" generation (the one I represent now) who were pro-war -- the spiritual ancestors of today's wingers and "morans."