I am originally from the west side of Detroit, Redford Township, and was in Nam when this happened. I didn't know anything about this, and returned in October. I went downtown the 1st morning to get some new tires on my car since I planed on doing some traveling while on leave. I was shocked at what I saw, and asked the guy at the tire shop about it. He looked at me odd, and said where in the hell have you been? I told him I had just returned from Nam the day prior, so he told me about it. He said something along the line of, "that explains it, since I had a bigger battle to deal with". He then put my new tires on, "At Cost", so I felt pretty good. I did not face any of the bad treatment that most of the guys received in 68, and latter.

I think Detroit has been in decline ever since then, but may be making a slow turn around in recent years.