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But still....no proof.https://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Image-Memory-Legacy-Vietnam/dp/0814751474&tag=ff0d01-20Bullshit. My deceased ex was one of them. It scarred him for life how he was treated, leading to his eventual overdose, much worse than being a Marine during that war.
Disrespect for Vietnam vets is fact, not fiction
But Lembcke (august west) is refuted by many other sources, including Jim Lindgren, a Northwestern University law professor who cited news accounts that documented many spitting incidents. One example: A 1967 Bucks County Courier Times article reporting that two sailors were spat on outside a high school football game by a gang of about 10 young men. One of the sailors was stabbed.
Others:
• In October 1967, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Reston's front page article in the New York Times described his eyewitness account of protest behavior so vulgar that spitting was the least of the transgressions.
• Even Medal of Honor recipients were abused and "spat upon as 'monsters'," according to the head of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, WWII medalist Thomas J. Kelly. Kelly recounted how about 200 anti-war protesters showed up one year to harass the Medal of Honor recipients at their annual dinner. WWII Medalist James Conners was unable to avoid a particularly obnoxious man yelling, "Killer, killer, killer." Conners decked him.
• Other spitting incidents were reported by Pulitzer Prize winners Max Frankel in the New York Times (November 1969) and Carl Bernstein in the Washington Post (May 1970).
Nobody saw it and no police reports or news stories about those alleged incidents exist. Pure fantasy created by bitter vets. I don`t blame them for being bitter but why the fairy tales?Tell me his name and I`ll ask him. Which hospital was he treated at?Ask the guy who ate through a straw for six weeks or so!
tell us, augie...
which branch did you serve in that you didn't see or hear of it happening?
Spitting Image
That isn't the Bible, augie, (and I doubt you'd believe it if it was), it was one mans opinion, and a very biased one at that