Bill Ayers, the co-founder of the Weather Underground, a radical group opposed to the Vietnam War, he set off bombs at the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the New York City Police Department headquarters; an unreformed radical leftist, he is now a professor of education and helps design public school curricula; he regained national attention in 2008 when he was outed as an associate of Barack Obama. Once, while meeting with Vietnamese Communists (in Toronto, where the living is easier than in Hanoi) he received the gift of a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. He said he was so moved by the gesture that he “left the room to cry.” It made him realize that “America was an evil . . . and that I was . . . living inside the belly of the beast. . . .” There were scores, if not hundreds, of anti-war activists who had their fifteen (or more) minutes of fame. Few amounted to anything more than being a foul nuisance. All, collectively, were harmful to the efforts to end the war and bring the troops safely home from Vietnam. And all were, in ways big and small, responsible for the loss of South Vietnam to the brutal rule and atrocities of the Communist North. Excerpt From: Jennings, Phillip. “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War.” Perseus, 2010-09-03. iBooks.
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