Veteran gets rude welcome on Bainbridge [It's Baaaak!]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | July 9, 2004 | ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr

[clamper1797]

The pukes weren't worth your energy.

I and especially a lot of my brothers had to live with the way we were treated when we returned from the war. I have had 31 years of that "baby killer/spitting" incident to stew inside of me. If I had loosened a few teeth that day instead of just standing there ... I would have felt a WHOLE lot better through those years. AND if a WW2 vet had seen my incident and had loosened those teeth for me ... I would have felt welcomed home from that day on. That is why I would loosen some teeth if some PUKE were to diss a returning vet in front of me ... I would take that WW2 vets place cause I know how much it would have meant to me when I returned.

[GoLightly]

I hear what you're saying. If any of that garbage is ever said within my hearing, this semi-old lady will pull out some of the oldest & most effective tools against childish cruelty. Hurt from guilt & shame lasts longer than a loosened tooth. Getting into the mud to fight the pig, pig likes it, you know the drill.

You stuck to the high road, rather than lowering yourself to their level. You acted with integrity & are to be commended. Some of those who should have been your brothers stood by silently. We learn from their failing & do differently, this time around.

I used to be a regular contributor in another on-line community. For years, I've "known" the Step-Mom of one of the first soldiers killed in Iraq. One of the other regulars there had been spouting that "support our troops by bringing them home" crap, so you can imagine how inappropriate her response was to the grieving Step-Mom. I was not the only one to rip into her. I hope some well earned shame is the reason the ditz left, never to return there again.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

You can email Jason Gilson.

frodo5@comcast.net.

[anonymoussierra]

Good afternoon great America friend. I like what you write. I like to give you Grom salute to all great America soldiers. You love America and that is good. That evil cretin do not like America. That is not nice person say word like that to ather person, not good. But you are good America person, America military have good person.

Grom Salute to America soldiers.

[anonymoussierra]

Good Afternoon good great America Friend.

Thank you for good word to America. Thank you for english lesson. You are good person.

Grom Salute to America soldiers.

[smokeyb]

Thanks for the ping Tonk ! I heard this soldier on Hannity's radio show today. He wants to get any video of it so he can show it on his TV show ! Ping anyone you can that might have or might know anyone with a copy of it !

[JLO]

Well, then hey! Good to you. I'm sure you are more behind the scenes than I knew. Word is getting out for sure.

Midwest folks sure don't wanna see it. We know better! Midwest values spoke to theater owners and they banned it from being seen.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040709/film_nm/film_fahrenheit_dc_5

[combat_boots]

I wrote the PI on this one. I remember well the last time, and was there to see what happened to folks then. Made me angry then, too. Cowards! Calling people names when they don't have the courage to face the foe on the field.

[GypsyPhyr]

I live in Washington, I travel through and in the Bainbridge Island community where this happened every day. I want you and everyone else to understand that it is more likely that the people booing, and the woman and couple slinging those foul slurs are not the descendants but in fact the SAME PEOPLE who said such things during our Vietnam War. You must be rather wealthy to live on that island.

It hurts my heart. I was a hippie way back when. I protested that war. I felt it wrong to round up the boys around me and ship them over there, to fight, to kill, to be killed. We had grown up incredibly sheltered and we were not prepared to face that.

Now, it is diffrent. These are young men who volunteered. They know what they face. They may not be prepared for it, but they choose to go none the less.

And my old sisters and brothers, and their misguided and ill educated children do not use thought, rationality, logic, truth, or any other defensable basis for their beliefs anymore. Their slogans make little sense. They cannot explain or defend their beliefs in complete sentences. They can only yell insults, throw garbage and break things.

I am embarassed, ashamed and angered by their behavoir. While they think they are getting some point accross with this, I think everyone else just sees pettiness and meaness and self-loathing. Leftists were once better than that. No more.