Posted on Jul 16, 2017
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"I walked into the Seattle airport, and I was in my Army outfit," he said. "The reception I received was so negative and so powerful that I walked into the nearest men's room, took my uniform off, threw it in the trash, and put on a T-shirt and a pair of pants."
Exactly. It wasn't the war "that infected Americans with an array of chronic illnesses..." it was the Hippie counter-culture that sought to destroy our American culture and replace it with a culture of their own invention - a drug culture that rejected personal responsibility as well as the rest of the traditions that once bound us together as a nation. And that poison is still with us today and is still dividing our nation.
Exactly. It wasn't the war "that infected Americans with an array of chronic illnesses..." it was the Hippie counter-culture that sought to destroy our American culture and replace it with a culture of their own invention - a drug culture that rejected personal responsibility as well as the rest of the traditions that once bound us together as a nation. And that poison is still with us today and is still dividing our nation.
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Already had this marked down to record in Sept. Saw a special recently on what went into making the documentary and the thousands of photos they viewed. It was fascinating.
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