In Britain too there are parents whose sons have been killed in Iraq who have been active in protesting against the war and the continued fighting and killing. (For example Rose Gentle)

But so far as I am aware, there hasn't been any of this hate and rage agains them, even by people who disagree with them.

I get the impression there is something very wrong indeed in the way in which people disagree with each other over these kinds of things in the States.

"Only in America" - isn't that supposed to be an expression of pride in your country, as a kind of model of how things should be?...