Check out this excellent article from Sunday's Pensacola News Journal. Writing in a heavily miltary area, reporter Troy Moon found:
If there's growing sentiment against the war in Iraq, many area veterans of the fight aren't taking it personally.
Vets see the opposition as a protest against policy, not them or their service.
During the Vietnam War, many returning U.S. troops felt taunted, humiliated and treated with little or no respect. In contrast, today's veterans say they don't encounter animosity from people who don't agree with the U.S. military presence in Iraq.
Read it all here, and show it to anyone you know who still feels protest is somehow unpatriotic. That goes double for any Democratic lawmakers and candidates who are still hedging their bets, afraid to speak out. Or do Dems want reasonable Republicans to seize this issue?
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