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Eliot Rosewater

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7. Thank you for your service.

Wed Sep 17, 2025, 01:52 PM

Sep 17

I have learned from reading what you have said, it’s a good thing to remind people of and point out that yes much of the anti-war protest from younger people who were all dubbed as hippies or whatever, was based on the fact that they didn’t wanna have to go to war and die for no reason.

The main concern about it is that it was used to demonize an entire generation of Democrats liberals progressive etc. To this day people that will not vote for a Democrat because they think they’re all connected to this stuff, some of which didn’t actually happen.

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One of the ways we got here, the 60-year-old lie that anti-Vietnam war protesters spit on [View all] Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 OP

I got a call from a Vietnam vet shortly after George Floyd. He's a public safety union guy. LeftInTX Sep 17 #1

The biggest step to get us where we are was the supreme court in 2010 Autumn Sep 17 #2

... Prairie Gates Sep 17 #3

Same with angry witchy feminists destroying families cbabe Sep 17 #4

We can connect this to what happened to Hillary Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #5

I was insulated b/c my Vietnam year was my first year of 4 yr enlistment, meaning UTUSN Sep 17 #6

Thank you for your service. Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #7

Thank you for YOURS! - and, yes, I sort of went tangential on your main point that the spitting part UTUSN Sep 17 #8

Couple of things, when you thank you me for my service do you mean Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #9

No, I had no inkling UTUSN Sep 17 #10