Las Vegas Sun

April 25, 2024

Letter to the editor:

Vietnam vets did not feel the love

In the Aug. 2 letter “Boomers preach peace and love,” the writer says she is a baby boomer who supported the anti-war policy of the day but “was never against the soldiers.”

As a veteran who came home from Vietnam in 1967 and disembarked at the San Francisco docks, our company was greeted by protesters calling us baby killers with bags of feces and ice cream cones thrown at us. And we all remember Hanoi Jane Fonda and other “flower children” as they assaulted the military with their toxic, personal venom.

Apparently she and I are remembering the war from two very different perspectives.