Reply #2: I, also. [View All]

I grew up as an overseas brat in the 60s. Even with VN going on, everywhere I went through that decade I was greeted with friendship - even in France, which had closed out all our bases there. I was an American, and everybody liked the Americans. Everybody trusted the Americans. Germany. Spain. England. After I graduated from HS I spent three months hitching around the continent with an American flag sewn to my backpack - OK, I did fill in a number of stars to leave a peace sign in the field of blue, but that was not obvious from any distance, and I never caught any grief from the drivers about the flag, or from the Americans I'd meet (I often stopped off at various bases through Italy, Spain and Germany) about the peace sign on it.

Everyone seem so much angrier, now, than I ever saw back then.