Wrangler Loc: North Texas

Irrelevant! How do you know it is true besides in a song.

jcboy3

Really. That’s your argument? You obviously missed the point. Go read some history.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

How many psychiatrists have quit on you? I've never claimed to be multilingual. (If you need me to I can post a definition for you) I'd like to be, but most Americans aren't, especially if they were born here.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

Would you have seen it? How high is it dropped from?
What does bomb bomb bomb bomb bomm iran have to do with your war? Here's a song for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSR4ZaDpBg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_2hlKqRTPg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqu6mXOXmx4

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjbq6GT-PM&index=12&list=RDPqu6mXOXmx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1fVMKgzR6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTyqoV1d2Ys

This ones not about Vietnam, but it fits on this forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwwNu-pt0U&list=RDPqu6mXOXmx4&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_AdEgRpxS8&list=RDPqu6mXOXmx4&index=8


There are plenty of wounds to rip open if that's what we want to do. Most of us were kids. Is ripping open wounds really what we want to do?

jcboy3

Napalm was tactical. Bombing of North Vietnam was strategic, with massive civilian casualties.

cwp3420

Spoken like a true coward.

cwp3420

So you belittle Melania Trump’s accent, because she is not a native English speaker, while you, being the genius on here, only know one foreign word, and that is “lasagna”. What a petty little sniveling shit you are. LOL, little boy.

cwp3420

If that’s what you really mean, genius, why did you bring it up?

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

Of course you didn't

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/truscott-apology-dead_soldiers-mm.html

https://www.pbs.org/video/origins-napalm/

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

I didn't start it. It needed answered. I offered a truce. I didn't offer unilateral disarmament.

Angmo

Head over to a library. History is important for you. Learn before you take the lying leftist way. Go read.

Anyone can explain it to you but no one can understand it for you.

jcboy3

You obviously need to take your own advice. But I can't do anything about your lack of respect for history.

wilpharm Loc: Oklahoma

sounds like you would be happier somewhere else.....adios MF

ole sarg Loc: south florida

When I came back I was not harassed nor spit upon. I hung up my uniform which I kept for reservel meetings and went to college. I spoke at "peace rallies" and said you all are wrong. But, was not spat upon!

The Myth of the Spitting Antiwar Protester
By Jerry Lembcke
Oct. 13, 2017

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People in Seattle welcoming troops returning from Vietnam.
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People in Seattle welcoming troops returning from Vietnam.CreditCreditDoug Wilson/Corbis, via Getty Images
“So where do these stories come from?”

The reporter was asking about accounts that soldiers returning from Vietnam had been spat on by antiwar activists. I had told her the stories were not true. I told her that, on the contrary, opponents of the war had actually tried to recruit returning veterans. I told her about a 1971 Harris Poll survey that found that 99 percent of veterans said their reception from friends and family had been friendly, and 94 percent said their reception from age-group peers, the population most likely to have included the spitters, was friendly.

A follow-up poll, conducted in 1979 for the Veterans Administration (now the Department of Veterans Affairs), reported that former antiwar activists had warmer feelings toward Vietnam veterans than toward congressional leaders or even their erstwhile fellow travelers in the movement.

I was glad the reporter was interested in the origin of these stories, because beginning even before the war ended, news organizations had too often simply repeated them — even though some stories had the hallmarks of tall tales all over them. Even The Times once quoted, matter-of-factly, a veteran telling of how he arrived stateside from Vietnam on a stretcher with a bullet in his leg, only to be splattered with rotten vegetables and spat on by antiwar college kids.

Whoppers like these go unchallenged by reporters and scholars perhaps because of their memoirist first-person quality, stories told by the men who say it happened to them. I collect the stories, I told the reporter, and have a spreadsheet with about 220 first-person “I was spat on” accounts.

But you don’t believe the stories, right? she asked. Acknowledging that I could not prove the negative — that they were not true — I went on to say there is no corroboration or documentary evidence, such as newspaper reports from the time, that they are true. Many of the stories have implausible details, like returning soldiers deplaning at San Francisco Airport, where they were met by groups of spitting hippies. In fact, return flights landed at military air bases like Travis, from which protesters would have been barred. Others include claims that military authorities told them on returning flights to change into civilian clothes upon arrival lest they be attacked by protesters. Trash cans at the Los Angeles airport were piled high with abandoned uniforms, according to one eyewitness, a sight that would surely have been documented by news photographers — if it had existed.