Mike, When you were 19 you were on campus,when I was 19 I was carrying an m79 grenade launcher in Hau Ngiah province. In one of those free fire zones you bemoan, a nasty little NVA staging area called the Oriental River, we flew into a hot lz and were pinned down assaulting a bunker complex. My platoon sergeant( a draftee)named Robbie Brown was killed trying to pull wounded back from the kill zone. Brown could have stayed back as he was shortly going to meet his wife in Hawaii for R and R. I’m sure in the mind of the movement heavies and the major dudes on campus Brown was a dupe, a pawn of the military industrial complex or whatever buzzword they got from Herbert Marcuse.
But he wasn’t . He was a brave leader of men and one of the best of his generation. Like I said Ayers is garbage, a lame clown who hates the land that allowed him to be a child of privilege. His name is worthy of nothing more than shame and disgrace. Screw him, Bernadine Dorhn, Mark Rudd and the rest of the little comic strip Marxists of that era.