Hatred of those who went

As for protestors and non-protestors, the bottom line to me was that the soldier who fought the war was sent to fight. Those who resented, ignored, blamed and hated these troops -whether they protested or not- should not have done so. Those who went, did not start the war, almost all of them didn't run the war, and many of them died in the war. What right does a protestor have to spit on a veteran, ever? If they possesed so much anger, they should have "hated the sin and not the sinners!" It is always dangerous to generalize, but some protestors claimed they were working for peace, but were actually traitors! Jane Fonda, sitting behind an anti-aircraft gun - a tool of war - was not working for peace in North Viet Nam. Those who supported the North Vietnamese by carrying flags or giving support were not working for peace. They were working for the enemy! They were trying to deny the feelings of cowardice many of them felt by embracing feelings of anger and hatred which were the antithesis of the US involvement in the war. If they judge others by their "yard stick" of violence and war, then they, too, measure up to be guilty!!