The "dirty hippies" will be proven right...again...

[madokie]

40. I came home from Vietnam in October of '70

Bought myself a VW beetle and proceeded to drop out of the system as quickly as I could. Love, sex, and lots of drugs all of which had cost me dearly paid for by 15 fucking months in country VN got me though. Where I was the VC rained, walked them in if you understand, rockets, mortars, whatever you want to call them, down on us day and night, not ever day or every night but more days and nights by far than not. No one to take your aggressions out on cause you couldn't see who was doing it but knowing all along that what you, I, was doing there was as wrong as anything I'll ever do my whole life. We had no business there doing what we were doing but it didn't matter. I came home pissed at the system and a little more than simply shell shocked, fucked up if you will. My friends along with the drugs, the love, the sex all of that got me through to where I am today an old man who is just happy to be alive and still have some wits about me. Prouder of the fact I'm an Old Hippie than I am a War Veteran. it was the Hippies who got us out of that hell hole not the politicians or anyone else, it was the Hippies and I thank them every single day of my life for the courage it took to take on the Man like they did. And you know what, the Hippies WON in the end.
fuckin' A

You know I think most of those rockets and mortars that rained down on us came from our own shores.
That's the sad part, the hardest part to come to grips with actually. knowing that