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To: getitright
"Even a World War II veteran paused to come over and call him a coward. don't be so quick to believe that this ever happened. I still do not."

I believe it happened. As I recall the WWII vets in the various veterans organizations had a big resentment against Vietnam veterans for some reason. We weren't always accepted as "real" war veterans. Also, there was a whole lot of misinformation and bad press about Vietnam veterans back then, and many people tend to believe the t.v. and newspapers as though they're gospel.

77 posted on 09/06/2004 9:31:46 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II (c 1097 a.d.))
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To: TheCrusader
Also, there was a whole lot of misinformation and bad press about Vietnam veterans back then, and many people tend to believe the t.v. and newspapers as though they're gospel.

Thanks to the likes of Walter Cronkite

99 posted on 09/06/2004 10:00:33 PM PDT by Mo1 (FR NEWS ALERT .... John Kerry over dosed on Botox and thinks he's Bob KerrEy)
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To: TheCrusader

Your are very correct. My late Vietnam Vet husband was refused a membership in the American Legion because they told him he was NOT welcome because he wasn't in a REAL WAR. I will never forget that as long as I live. I cry often over what he went thru. He is with God now and has Peace. John Kerry is unfit for command. He's a traitor.


110 posted on 09/06/2004 10:30:33 PM PDT by Lovergirl (Bush/Cheney / 4 more years)
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