Supporting the Enemy


I was attending a private school in Loudon county Virginia. One day our teacher asked us if we wanted to go to a demonstration against the war. Most of the kids including me said yes. So we went. We just stood around on the Capitol steps. There were several speakers, including one Vietnamese woman who described the bombing of her village. When the organizers passed the hat, I put a quarter in. That seemed to shame several others into putting money in.

After I heard that people were interpreting protests against the war as support for North Vietnam, I vowed not to go to any more protests, so that was the only one I went to.

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