The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right !

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It's was a lie. I was there - it did not happen, but the media was doing all it could to discredit the DFH, because we were advocating crazy ideas like social responsibility, environmental awareness, limited capitalism, etc. There has not been a single bit of proof that this ever happened. In truth, the exact opposite happened. We knew these guys coming back were nothing more than pawns in a game that had been shattered by the truth - they were fighting and dying for nothing. But hey were our brothers, cousins, friends and they were ruined people that needed help. They had been lied to, big time. And a lot took refuge in the counter culture movement to try to find some sense of reality. They came back drugged, bitter, angry, confusing, blindly hating, and distrustful of about everything. It was the "straights"that told them to suck it up, they should be proud for serving their country, and to shut up and put it behind them. It was the counter culture people - the hippies - that allowed them space to sort themselves out. My little commune had one soldier come through, he was wandering around in town with no place to sleep, and the pain in his eyes was too much to look at. He had seen way too much horror for a person so young. We just fed him and housed him, and gave him clothing when he asked for it. He didn't talk much, and eventually he did, and one of the first things he said was he was told before he got out of the army, that the hippies would hate him and spit on him. He was very suspicious of us, but we were the only ones who would take him in in a cold northeast winter, so he had little choice. Once he found out that he had been lied to, and it was OK to sit in a corner and cry it out, and people would listen to him talk without judging him, he eventually came to trust us. he spilled his guts and the stories he told were horrible, but he needed to say it to get it out of his system. One morning, he got up, and he was a different person - like he had just awakened from a nightmare to discover the world around him was alright, after all. My girlfriend awoke me crying, and told me she went into the kitchen and he was there cooking, and she heard him laugh for the first time since he had moved in, and it moved her to tears.. He eventually found himself a girlfriend, they moved to Vermont to start a farm, and he left us with a smile and hope. That is the truth, no matter what the media was trying to say.