i remember the news footage (back in the late 60s, when news reporting was reasonably

balanced) of crowds of so-called peaceful anti-Vietnam War protesters, demonstrating on college campuses (on their fathers' dime - most moms were housewives back then).  i remember the national guard being called in - evidently, there was reason for this, because things got out of hand.  i recall our returning veterans being called "baby killers."  

Even then, as young and clueless as i was, i knew that if the boot had been on the other foot, the North Vietnamese soldiers would have killed our babies, in a second, and laughed about it.

So, that war was messed up enough, only to come back and have a buncha spoiled college kids spit in your face.  Uh, that's no help for a soldier to become acclimated to civilian life, to getting a job, and keeping it...and keeping himself from throttling some smug little snow-flake dry-cleaners' supervisor (whose daddy had the pull to keep his smooth-palmed little boy from getting drafted).

Anyway, break is over.