We climbed down from the Student Union building and about 5,000 of us headed for the police lines in 1970, with wet rags on our mouths and noses ( some guys had real gas masks and some even were helmeted) ready for them -- never seen so many scared-ass cops ... Ever face an angry mob?

It was after The Days of Rage, after the Kent State Massacre ... It took years but we only got one real objective accomplished -- the end of the Vietnam War -- Nixon's resignation for petty crimes -- the social inequities were only partially addressed that is how we have arrived to this day.

The British didn't expect Gen. Geo. Washington and his rag-tag Continental Army to survive the winter at Valley Forge either ... Cornwallis must have shit his pants when they crossed the Potomac. Are these fair weather soldiers or do these protesters mean business we will see but to dismiss them as just a few rabble-rousing ne'er-do-wells is self deception.