Let’s never let a good rumor get in the way of facts. Let’s take the long time myth of soldiers being spit on . I’m not going to say there were isolated incidents but it’s mostly a myth used by many different politicians and yes some vets . There was a book written many years ago called the spitting image by Jerry Lembcke he came to the same conclusions as I had before I read his book . I went back and forth to Vietnam in uniform 4 times , I then when back many more times as a civilian and with my short hair at airports left no doubt I was government. I never had more then a peace sign flashed at me . I had discussions at airport bars with the many anti war people and never did they disrespect the uniform and most gave me a hug or a warm handshake when plane was called , I started asked many people I knew and I knew many who knee many and none ever answered that it had happened , most had the same stories I did . This story and the police story remind me of a story about my mother my mother was very big in the civil rights movement and the anti war movement , told by my sister it was mentioned at one meeting that here son had been part of the war for a long time ,,she just looked at that person very stern and said you do know we are protesting the war not the soldier lots of people today could learn a lot from my mother
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