Photo of Mitt Romney Protesting In Favor of the Vietnam War
January 4, 2012 at 12:33 PM Leave a comment
Check out this May, 1966 photo of Mitt Romney protesting in favor of the Vietnam War:
Romney’s moment at a ’60s protest was reported in some newspapers the next day with a mention that the son of Michigan Governor George Romney — who would later turn against the Vietnam War — had been spotted at the event. The photo was also mentioned by the Boston Globe in 2008, with a partial image of the event clipped from a newspaper front page. The paper wrote in its definitive series on the former governor that, “Among the long hair and ragged clothes of his classmates, Romney stood out both for his smart appearance and his ardent support of the war.”
Romney did not, however, serve in Vietnam. As a Mormon missionary, he was considere “‘a minister of religion” by the church and was exempt from the draft.
It’s a lot easier to be for a war when you aren’t sweating bullets that you’ll be drafted and killed in it, like my two brothers were back then.
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