US students kicked of school campus for wearing US flag t-shirts

[Kev]

You know Bilbo..I was drafted and sent to Viet Nam. I did not believe in the war, did not want to go, had a wife and baby on the way. But I was sent by the people elected to run our government..I stepped up and did my duty. Some guys faked illness, some guys deserted and went to Canada. I never met a GI who wanted to be over there. I got a purple heart and returned home to a depressed economy and jobs tough to find. I think I know what your choice would have been, and today I meet guys who are ashamed that they chose to run and hide during those times. Well, you just go right on making fun of the real people who will man the guns, and be there when the chips are down. I suspect you are a young man who has not experienced going to a foreign country ruled by an oppressive government who would throw you in prison for uttering anything subversive. You still miss the point of this being a school in the United States and NOT Mexico. Now if you really want to offend Mexicans on that holiday..go into Mexico and wear a French flag on your shirt--but myself and my grand kids have the right to wear an American flag on our shirt in a U.S. public school....simple as that.

Sorry but what the fuck does serving in Nam have to do with this?

And why does objecting to the war but going make you better than someone who objects and faces imprisonment and exclusion to stand up for that conviction?

The whole Vietnam war was an illegal invasion. The Americans preempted it by faking an attack an The USS Maddox in the infamous Gulf Of Tonkin incident in 1964.

Your military leaders fabricated an attack on one of their own boats by the Vietnamese in order to allow President Johson the authority to push through the 'Gulf of Tonkin' resolution which allowed the US to 'assist' any country facing communist aggression.

It was a terrible war crime but gets completely brushed over because America won and are the world's only superpower.

We now know they also fabricated the WMD that Saddam was supposedly stockpiling and aiming at American cities in order to get the authority to invade their also.

They use the image of brave and patriotic serviceman dying to ensure peace and freedoms for others as a shield to deflect from any criticisms. If somebody opposes the war they are unpatriotic, spitting on the graves of American hero's.

Its' so wrong. The Americans are the most aggressive country in the world and have been proven time and time again to fabricate and even stage attacks in order to ignite the conflict they desire.

And you are right, I absolutely would have refused to fight in Vietnam and kill peasant's living in huts made of bamboo and long grass.