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KingCharlemagne

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31. Really? Would your friend or you be receptive to academic studies that

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:29 AM

Oct 2014

document what I've said about how the 'spitting on' and taunting of returning Vietnam vets did not happen, save in the minds of right-wing douches determined to propagate the stab-in-the-back mythos?

If so, you and he might wish to consult The Spitting Image:

The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by sociologist Jerry Lembcke. The book argues that the common claim that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War is an urban legend intended to discredit the anti-war movement. Lembcke writes that this discrediting of the anti-war movement was foreshadowed by Hermann Göring's fostering of the stab in the back myth, after Germany's defeat in Europe in 1918

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitting_Image

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A friend died of exposure to agent orange. Enthusiast Oct 2014 #9

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It's something of an urban legend that vets were 'shit on' when they got back. Certainly, they KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #19

They absolutely were shit on when they came back whopis01 Oct 2014 #25

This message was self-deleted by its author KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #28

Got you. Agree 100% that government treated vets mighty shabbily KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #29

I didn't mean literally. But they were taunted and called baby killers Beaverhausen Oct 2014 #30

Really? Would your friend or you be receptive to academic studies that KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #31

IT HAPPENED TO HIM!!! Beaverhausen Oct 2014 #32

I remember those days pretty well. They were crapped on, and then they weren't. MADem Oct 2014 #37

Pentagon Papers leaker and now fervent antiwar activist Daniel Ellsberg says KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #38

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VA takes really takes good care of me. marble falls Oct 2014 #15

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Never was in VN, but our friend's brother was, and died from Agent Orange DFW Oct 2014 #27

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