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   From: oil@vinegar.com   
      
   LinuxSaves wrote:   
      
   > Salad wrote:   
   >   
   >> Cephus wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On the radio last week, one man related that he had unpacked the uniform   
   >>> that he wore home from Viet Nam all those years ago. It had not seen the   
   >>> light of day for over 30 years. He showed it to his children and   
   >>> grandchildren and, for the first time, spoke of the day that he returned   
   >>> home from war and was spat on, cursed at, and literally had to run a   
   >>> gauntlet of protesters who threw human waste and rotten fruit on him   
   >>> and his   
   >>> fellow vets. With the words "baby killers" ringing in his ears he was   
   >>> warned   
   >>> by laughing policemen not to retaliate or he would be arrested. So he   
   >>> ran.   
   >   
   >   
   >> Horseshit.   
   >>   
   >> The only people that spat on the vets were Republicans at the Florida   
   >> convention back in 1972.  That is verified and true and written up in   
   >> the newspapers.   
   >>   
   >> The lies of the "baby killer spitters" is fabrication.   
   >   
   >   
   > Thank you!  It ABSOLUTELY is horseshit, bullshit, or any other kind of   
   > shit.  My husband came home from the Vietnam war on a stretcher,   
   > permanently disabled (right elbow was crushed).  He had VOLUNTARILY   
   > enlisted in the Air Force.  He saw NOTHING BUT warm welcomes when he got   
   > home--and he's from Florida!  But he was shipped to Edwards AFB   
   > (California) after his injury, and we met in L.A. (where I'm from).   
   > After he was out of the hospital and recuperating,  he ACTIVELY and   
   > LOUDLY protested the war--just like John Kerry did.  You know why?   
   > Because he SAW WITH HIS OWN EYES what it was like over there, how US   
   > troops (kids, really) were getting blown apart for NO REASON.  And he   
   > wanted to prevent any more loss of life or limb.  I'm PROUD that we   
   > protested that war.  And don't anyone DARE to accuse us of spitting on   
   > returning vets or any other such nonsense.  Nothing could be further   
   > from the truth.   
      
   I FIRMLY hold the belief that if it were NOT for the protestors the war   
   in Vietnam would have gone on for years.  Thankfully there were people   
   like your husband that went the extra mile after his time in the service.   
      
   It was a war widely supported by older Americans that served in WWII and   
   Korea and held a strong belief of "My country, right or wrong."   The   
   concept of disagreeing with the government was forign to them.  It took   
   a while for the older people aka "those in power" to also accept the   
   fact it was a bad war.  Too bad it took 58K dead soldiers to convince them.   
      
   Every single person I knew was sympathetic to those that were drafted   
   and sent off to war.  Those that served, their choices were limited   
   since they didn't have the connections bush, Quayle, and others had.   
      
   And it IS true that the Republicans spit on the vets at the GOP   
   convention that were protesting the war.  I wouldn't be surprised if   
   bush was sloshed at the convention cheering the spitters on.   
      
   >   
   > BTW, just in case it's not clear enough from the above, we support John   
   > Kerry 100%.  We would NEVER vote for a lying deserter...   
   >   
      
   Most current war mongers are those that never served.   
      
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