Ken Burns Vietnam on PBS

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I've been storing this up in my DVR. I was one of those punk kids in DC protesting the war starting in '70. One memory was when the composition of the protesters changed to veterans and parents in '71.

There was no spitting on vets or any such nonsense. If we had seen any of that shit, the perp would've been picking their teeth up off the sidewalk. Not saying there weren't isolated incidents of such mistreatment of our vets but we never saw any of it.

For the record, that scene in Forrest Gump where Abbie Hoffman jumped up on stage at the Lincoln Memorial, we hippies booed and chased him off the stage. We were there for the music after being teargassed and chased around the Washington Monument by the DC Mounted Police. Fuckin' Cossacks.

Abbie Hoffman was a poseur.

Boy, this one by Mr. Burns is going to be tough to watch but watch I will.