Query Re: "Support the Troops -- Bring Them Home"

[Carrol Cox]

The Gulf War was the first time I ever encountered it. We didn't use it
in the Vietnam War. A Vietnam veteran who spoke at our major rally
locally(he had been a marine machine gunner) said it was a silly slogan.

It takes a while for americans to get used to the fact that their
government can really have evil intentions. They need a temporary
crutch. To that extent (its aid to the protestors themselves) it's not a
wholly outrageous slogan. But it's got to be broken at some point;
people have to get beyond it.

Carrol