I agree with Shaun, who touched a real nerve in my life. I'm 55, and was
quite active in VVAW local activity in the Monterey/Carmel/Pacific Grove
area of California from 1969-1971. My mother died in 1994, and to the
day she died (actually, some of her last words to me) were that she
never understood how we could have had an upside-down flag hanging on
our wall during that period, and how much that single fact hurt her.
There are some we will never reach to teach, but it's always worth the
effort. Our children, who were pre- and early-teens during the early
'70s, demonstrated with us...even to the extent of being interviewed on
local radio as to the reasons for their presence at marches and sit-ins.
These children are now parents of teens(my grandchildren), and I find
that the younger generation's knowledge of the activities of their
parents is limited to drug-activity only. It's sad.
June Cook -- Network Design and Research Center
http://www.alaska.net/~research