Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
So, how many of those ordinary Canadians that showed up also fled north from the States calling U.S. soldiers baby killers? It’s OK for Canadians to kill children and not us?

Edit: OK, feeling a little guilty for that. They do have my sympathies. I'm at work so I don't want to read the article and get all emotional.
I think there has been a shift, globally, in the public treatment of veterans.

In the sixties, the soldiers took the blame. 'Babykillers', indeed. In Canada, the US, Europe, erm...don't know about elsewhere. Nowadays, a returning soldier is seen as just a guy who did his duty / job / calling. Any blame is laid with the politicians, not the individual soldier. Anti-war does not equal anti-soldier anymore.

Whatever one may think about that - I, for one, am not willing to give soldiers a free pass - there's little point in singling out any one country for maltreatment of soldiers and veterans. Opinion shifted along the same lines pretty much everywhere.