An e-mail to me showed the march on Selma of the 1960s with the commemorative march with Rosa Parks, President Obama and noticed one thing: the 1960s marchers were carrying so many American flags, it was hard to see many of the marchers, the latest march on Selma had not a single flag in view.
Just days ago, Panama City, FL, hosted the Wounded Warriors retreat. During the retreat, some of the finer students of Florida State and Emory University vandalized veterans' flags, spat upon the vets and a service dog and jeered them with vulgar epithets.
As though in a drug-induced flashback, I re-lived walking the long corridors of LAX and enduring the same abuse from the panhandling hippies and the orange-clad Hare Krishnas. My being in uniform, as was required while traveling under orders in the 1960s, seemed to legitimize their actions.
Pathetically, the hippies of street and campus protest have permeated our classrooms, become presidential advisers, high ranking officials. America and freedom, as given in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, are gradually disappearing.
Peter L. Williamson
Vancouver
