Truth About The Vietnam War Protestors

First, I want to tell you that my father, retired Brig. General Henry A. Smith, Jr., never once told me to stop protesting the Vietnam War because it was harming the troops. And he knew that I would have tried to stop the protests if the protests were harming the troops. Instead, he told war stories of wars similar to Vietnam. And he did this at the dinner table, in front of all the people who thought I was a low down hippie radical. One of the things he kept repeating was. "You can not win a war on air power alone. To win a war, you have to have boots on the ground."

The Vietnam War Protestors Had Information That You Did Not Have.
When men came back to the US after their tour of duty in Vietnam, many of them went to college on the GI Bill. We met them in class and at the local bars. They did not tell anyone else about their war experience. But they told us because we were their friends. They would get drunk and talk about slicing off ears to prove kills, and people being thrown out of airplanes.

The Protests Were Very Well Organized.
Our leaders started by doing research about the war. These students were children of the elite, attending the best universities in the world. Then they organized classes to teach of all what they had found out. They called them Teach-Ins. When they had enough people they started the protests. They found out really quickly that they had to do crowd control or the protests would spiral out of control. We had protests of five hundred thousand people where no one got hurt expect the people who wanted to blow off steam by performing petty acts of vandalism. We had marshals who kept that under control as well.

We All Paid A Huge Price For Doing This.
Most of us lost large portions of their families, because many people, even forty years later, are still angry about the Vietnam War protests.

Did You Really Want Another 100,000 Young Men Killed So You Could See If You Were Right?
No person who fights a war believes that the army should not retreat when necessary. Ask the British about the idiot commander who sent 10,000 calvary troops armed with swords against entrenched machine guns.

Politicians Have The Most Difficult Job On The Planet.
They have to listen to everybody, formulate a plan that will work, and implement the plan. People think they do not like them because they will never be able to satisfy everybody. You are making their jobs infinitely more difficult by calling them crooks, so stop doing it.

I want you all to help me provide shelter to all of the people who are going to be temporarily homeless due to the worldwide economic crises. We can also store people's belongings, and keep people's pets so that when the crises is over they can go back to their lives. And we are going to do this while making the shelters as much fun as possible. I am aiming for a combination of summer camp and college without all of the classes. We can do this, and it will be fun. (It now looks like this plan will not be necessary in the US. Thank you, President Obama.)