From Mars is for Martians (hippie Martians, too), on Thu, 27 Mar 1997 02:18:47 GMT (in response to: TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT, TO THOSE WHO DIED...WE REMEMBER)
Being a hippie back then and having some experience observing anti-war demonstrations,etc, I must say that certainly some of the 'hippies and war protesters' did have bigoted attitudes against the troops BUT certainly some people had bigoted attitudes against the hippies and war protesters! True hippie culture was benign by nature and 'hostile' hippies weren't real hippies....Will us hippies forever be dumped on by some people? Well, it was always thus......I've noticed that the anti-hippie and anti-troop attitudes are similar, same kind of vibe, differant tonality. signed x still a hippie and used to be a troop (73-76)USA
ps: if you'd written "SOME hippies SOME war protesters" I wouldn't have minded.......................
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