The Detestable Peace Sign

People still flash it to this day, this icon of 60's/70's anti-war hippie lore. It was stolen from Churchill and bastardized. Sir Winston Churchill flashed it all across war torn Britian, London in particular, as "V" for victory, a rallying cry against Nazi Germany. Now there's a true leader, a giant among history's greatest leaders.

Bastardized - by the radicals of yesteryear, many who are, unfortunately, our political leaders of today or deeply entrenched in the vast bureaucracy that is destroying our Great Nation from within - bastardized into the "Peace Sign". Typical leftist ploy - "I just want peace, man... how can you be against peace?" Just like "the children", or "clean air and water". This would be bad enough, but it's much worse.

The peace sign IS the icon of the radical left of the Vietnam Era and those who followed them - those who cheered their megaphone chants of "Hell No, We Won't Go", who joined their marches, protests and sit-ins for whatever reasons, be they true believers, just wanted to be cool, or trying to cash in on some of that "free love".  The peace sign IS the icon of those who spit on our military when they returned from battle, who called them baby killers. I find it to be the ultimate symbol of disrespect to the 58,156 brave Americans who paid the ultimate price, the 303,704 who were wounded, and the over 9 million who served during the Vietnam Era. That's what it really means to me, and always will.