Counter-protester piece in the N&R

I am a level-headed enough person to know a couple of things: 1) The truth most often lies in the gray areas between extremes 2) There are extremists in every movement.

That said, I can't argue that Kevin Farris' account of the March on the Pentagon was factually incorrect. It's theoretically possible that some idiot on the anti-war side yelled something as horrible as "baby killer". It is likely that another moron wrote something on his/her blog about defacing the Vietnam Wall.

But I neither witnessed any such behaviors and every mention of any member of the military, currently and in the past, was spoken with respect.

I also stood side-by-side with a man in his '60s and bemoaned the few extremist anti-war protesters who carried riot shields and confronted the police on the bridge to the Pentagon, just past the March's ending point. "That's not what this is supposed to be about," he said. Everyone else I spoke with would have said the same.

See points 1 and 2.