remembering VN

 remember seeing that news on TV every evening at dinner time , it was ON as that was what we relied on for the info of the day , thats when the MSM got the idea they were the gods of info in our lifetimes , we gave them that because it was our only connection , 

when i left high school in dec 68 and started college in jan 69 we had just watched TET unfold on TV , most of the next few years of my life were influencesd by what we had and were seeing on YV , i cant imagine that woman seeing her husband killed on the nightly news , but i do remember the nightly news being full of the imbeded reports - the body counts - the actual on location reports that were more real than anything the US population had ever seen before , wewere not used to that , we were used to doctored up news reels at the movie theaters , it was sobering , 

i also remember the antiwar protesters and that coverage at the democrat convention , i remember them on campus , i remember the building on the campus i was studying on getting bombed , no one hurt thankfully , i remember the protestors trying to block access to our classes , and i remember kent state and classes being canceled , i remember dropping my student deferment to be eligible for the lottery and being good with whatever happened , i got a real high number FWTW , im still 1H and always will be per those regs of the times - subject to call up at any moment , true they dont want me anymore , but im still on the list , 

i also remember my VN student vet friends telling me about their experiences returning home , there is a lot of those times that ive chosen to not dwell on but none of it has ever left my mind , life allowed me to enjoy the company of a lot of others over the years that either experienced it as i did or served there and suffered the insults of those times , ive been blessed to know all good people in either case , we all agree we are very much ashamed of what the MSM did with the trust we gave back then , they seemed to think they were given that trust as a right to mislead and lie , 

NOT TRUE , but i do believe ive lived long enough now to see that get negated - we shall see , i know i dont watch TV or the nightly news as i did back then , nor do i believe what they say or alter my life based on that anymore , 

 our political types have always swayed to the whims of those that protest loudest in the streets , almost always unemployed but paid by those that wanted to influence policy , aided by the MSM coverage and fawning , it has been so since VN , that is why you see it on our campuses today , we fight the battles and pay the bills but we have to live with the restrictions when fighting and pay the taxes , its BS .............why trump has struck a cord - we are tired of it ,