Violent Assault Upon Another is Not a Right

But it is the sort of behavior acted out by such as Nazis against those who exercised freedom of conscience.

Now, tell us how _you_ "defended" US citizens' rights by threatening to do them violence if they dared _exercise_ those rights?

Either put up proof--not mere whining or unsubstantiated anecdotes about returnees being "spit on"--or cease hyperbolizing it in effort to make it appear to have been a common event.

And "following orders" is not a defense--not under Nuremberg, not under international law, and not under US military law. Nor is it an excuse for those who, on one hand, claim that, and on the other claim to have defended the right to follow conscience instead of orders. Your notion was at the heart of the My Lai massacre; and mass murder Calley's defense included the claim he did not know the order he _allegedly_ recieved was illegal. That excuse doesn't work for him either: non-coms under his command, having less training and education than he, refused the order because they knew it was illegal.

Blame those who put you there--not those who struggled for years to bring you back.