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billy j
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Served my time in Vietnam and even though no one actually spit on me I know it happened. As a Veteran with a service connected disability and no medical benefits I feel like the Government spits on me everyday. Veterans are treated like crap while illegal Mexicans have more benefits. |
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notadummyrat
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Life Magazine December 1969 has a picture of this. It's no legand. |
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World Peace Now
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It doesn't matter, they were all heroes and deserve respect. |
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countessdoors
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Just because you didn't get spit on doesn't mean that someone else didn't.
By the way, as for you being a vet, thanks. |
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badjanssen
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not when there are pics to prove otherwise.... |
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patrsup
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Actually I saw it happen to my father in the airport in LAX on his return. I was waiting at the Pan Am gate and he walked off the plane in uniform (this was before gateways) and this guy in a old army field jacket and long hair spit at him (it landed on the ground between the soldiers and the perp) or to be fair it could have been the group of soldiers my dad was with. Perhaps he was not singled out. I’ll remember it as long as I live 11 0ct 1969 was the date.
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations"
- Winston Churchill: My Early Life (1930) ch. 9. |
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lilith663
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And just because you were not spit upon, that means no one was? You speak for ALL Vietnam Vets? |
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Brutus Maxius
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i have to believe that some fanatic anti-war protesters did spit on returning soldiers. and it's just the sort of thing you expect from those people. you were lucky if you didn't have to put up with that. |
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The World We Know
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A friend's dad insists he was spit on upon returning from Vietnam. Knowing his character (and the lack of character by many of the protestors), I believe what he said. |
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d1a1n1d1i
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No, I don't agree. I've known too many VN vets who have told me about it, and I'll take their word over some leftist desperately trying to clean up the image of the anti-war crowd of that era. If they called the troops "murderers", "baby-killers", "savages' and such and sometimes openly supported our enemies a la Jane Fonda, why is it such a stretch to believe a few would send a little spittle their way, also? |
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mother_amethyst
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No, some were spit on in truth, I remember seeing it on the TV news, though I was 11 so I don't remember any details. |
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Lavrenti Beria
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Since I SAW it happen when I was a kid, I know that you are citing a revisionist lib-history site which is pure lies, start to finish.
BTW, are you also a Holocaust denier? |
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AMERICA!
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I would Never, Never spit on a soldier of the united states army. I salute you. go get those charlies. |
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sparhawk7322
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If something in the past upsets you I guess you're better off pretending that it never happened. This is called moral cowardice by definition. |
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Recruit From Wisconsin
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you were to busy burning your uniform and our flag to notice your comrades were being ridiculed, coward |
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Jason A
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It's no myth but rather liberal revisionist history. Read Bob Greene's publication of letters from Vietnam vets in the book Homecoming.
To claim that the harassing incidents were a myth is to say that they never happened when in fact, they did. First hand accounts of veterans cannot be discredited while speculation over the incidents can be. A myth is a story that is fabricated, an account that has no basis of reality; the veterans' accounts are by no means fabricated. What reason would the veterans have for lying? By making the argument that the incidents were a myth is to call the harassed veterans, liars. |
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frenchy62
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There is no way to argue that it did in fact happen. It was a display by our society that serves as an example of how NOT to treat our military personnel who put their lives on the line for us.
I am grateful that it never happened to you. It should never happen to any member of our military, and I hope it never does again. |
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Hil E
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You are mistaken in the impression you give that service members were not abused upon returning from Vietnam and in general during that time. When it becomes stylish to demean your Country, as it has to some these days, it becomes stylish to demean those who defend that country. See the remarks by Senators Durbin, Kerry and Reed to name just a few who have either implied or stated untruths about our soldiers today. This was the same case during the Vietnam era. I recommend that you read the book Stolen Valor and maybe your memory of those times will return. If not, just stick around till 2008 I am sure the same type of “right thinking” people will emerge once again and you can see it happen again first hand. |
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bytchy_princess
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even back then people realized you weren't worth the time it would take to spit on you. sometimes time does stand still... huh ?? i know youll report me and have my comment removed since it isn't what you want to hear.. but that's ok.. i hvent had one removed yet today |
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Philip L
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I hereby state I was never shot or stabbed by anyone therefore murder does not exist. |
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Dave_Stark
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No, erudite, I don't agree. Because it happened to me and to friends of mine.
This is another of your monthly circuit of lies and trolling. Get some new material. |
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Dragon'sFire
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I saw it happen I have seen it on news clips, news footage, yes they were spat on by some dirty hippies...
If they had anything against the goverments decision to get involved in Nam, they should have spat at the politicians and not some kid that was made into a killer, trying to do what he thought was right at the time...The fools making those comments about not being spat on, probably never went over there, neither one said that they did.... |
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nomad74
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My brother came back from his second tour in Vietnam in 1970 and had people throw stuff at him in S.F. |
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gamerunner2001
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Nobody ever spat on me, if they had I probably would have kicked the living sh*t out of them. I didn't wear my uniform other that when I was required, and I didn't talk to anyone about the war. When I was discharged from the Marines I let my hair grow long so nobody could ever tell that I was part of that night mare. I partied hard, kept quiet and never forgot those friends that didn't come home. I was angry that this country couldn't have given a crap whether we lived or died when we were in country, they were to busy living the good life and having fun. Take your myth and shove it |
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630 550 2687
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I wouldnt get into that. I wouldnt even bring it up. We should be talking bout how the vietnamese ppl done for AMERICA (ps nothing) |
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henrythepug
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i think its more of a metaphorical thing...like the nation spit on them by manner of treatment and health care and benefits and such... |
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cav
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no i dont |
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Evan B
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There may have been a few isolated incidents. There are loons on every side of any issue. I'm sure Eric whatshisname isn't representative of anti-abortion activists. |
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aldistrict7colorado
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Well since I was not there when it happened I must rely on the men I know that are Vietnam Veterans. Two of these men told that they had been spit on and worse. They landed in San Fran. One said that they were not even allowed wear their uniforms at the airport. People were on a walkway over where he had to walk to get to a bus. As far as things changing in a book I read call"Talking With Heroes" a soldier just out of AIT in Boston or some where around there was in a store to get some bluejeans wearing his dress greens when a older woman came up and called him a baby killer and spit on him. This was after Sept 11th. |
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pink_angel
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Well, I don't know, I don't think it was the Vets that started that legend, I think it was the gov't that was behind that. But I can't say for sure, since I wasn't around then. My parents say it happened but I don't beleive that they ever actually saw it happen. They are an example of folks who believe everything they see on TV. |
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