In the summer of 1967, a few of us went to leaflet the Enterprise, which was docking in Oakland on a return from Vietnam. People warned us "You'll get killed down there" and the like; there were only five of us. In fact, the sailors coming off the ship gladly took our leaflets, often said "You're right" or "I agree" or the like, and only in a handful of cases pretended to ignore us or spoke against us. Only a few weeks earlier, on a plane to the East Coast, I happened to be sitting next to a middle-age man, in civilian clothes, who turned out to be some (low-ranking) general on leave from Vietnam. He too, when we spoke, sometime during the trip, of the the war, agreed we needed to get out immediately. These are mere anecdotes, but are among the, probably, millions showing how great was Americans' sentiment against the war. Paula
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