Gordon Duff: Why America must have an anti-war uprising : Veterans Today

I remember going to the induction center to be greeted by hippy girls with drug-laced brownies in their last-chance try to stop kids like me. I had entertained the thought of Canada, but not enough. My mother showed me an advertisement and I ended up joining the USMC with an aviation guarantee. It was our way of finding compromise during those loathsome days.

The silence of our nation during all of this was deafening, and stirred my rage going forward. Adolescence was attacked by its own mother and decades later we lick our wounds. I loathe my lack of courage (in those days) to make a better decision.

Thank you for posting this very painful piece.

Gulf War-1 is another example of our schizophrenia. Dances With Wolves was playing at theaters during the lead-up to this war. After viewing this film, Americans proclaimed "Its a shame what we did to those Indians" and then turned about-face to Iraq and said "Lets go get those SOBs!"

We sent our youth half-way round the world to protect a prince we did not know, by blowing up indigenous in their own civil war. Americans don't see the irony in this either.