Vietnam vets still remember hippie hatred

“(Protesters) were squalling and hollering at us and calling us baby killers,” the Robeson County native said. “It's pretty tough when you get off the plane in Oakland, Calif., and there was the hippies, the Jesus freaks and war protesters throwing rotten eggs at you. We were still Americans.” The wrenching experience continues to haunt Hunt and thousands of Vietnam veterans like him decades later. But many veterans take solace in the fact that most Americans, even those opposed to the war, revere the soldiers serving in Iraq. "Vietnam Veterans Cheer New Attitude Toward Military" The Robesonian (North Carolina)