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When Vietnam vets came home (Soldiers being spit on is just an urban myth)
News and Observer ^ | Nov 10, 2004 | JOHN LLEWELLYN

Posted on 11/10/2004 3:35:05 PM PST by mykdsmom

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To: RaceBannon
"I heard Baby Killer many times"
Me too! The bad part is my dad in uniform, my mom and my brother and I were with him at an airport in Little Rock Ark in 1965. It got bad my brother was 18 at the time and the punches flew. The cops looked the other way. My brother cleaned out a nest of the jerks. Oh wait, it was just a legend. Ha Ha!
421 posted on 11/11/2004 6:28:46 AM PST by BellStar (Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice Clarence Thomas)
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To: BellStar

http://www.wfu.edu/~llewelly/ - here's this Mama's boy website.


422 posted on 11/11/2004 6:33:33 AM PST by NotADove (My heroes wear fatigues)
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To: MistyCA

Thanks for the ping.

I think a lot this anger might be relieved if we hang John Kerry in effigy. There must be a town named Effigy around here somewhere. Or we could rename one for the event.

Ah, yes. Bring back the old days.....


423 posted on 11/11/2004 6:36:18 AM PST by wizr
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To: mykdsmom

This guy is a major league ahole.

These stories make me sick. I am 29 so I only hear these stories second hand from places like this. I am sitting here crying because I can't believe how horribly our men were treated by thier fellow Americans. My dad was a Marine and doesn't talk about it much. Only once did he say that he walked through O'Hare Airport in Chicago in his uniform and was called "baby-killer" and "all that stuff" (his words).

I am so thankful that Kerry was not elected so that these incidents are not repeated. People who did spit and yelled and assulted our men are nothing but cowards and I can't see how they can get up everyday and look themselves in the mirror.


424 posted on 11/11/2004 6:36:51 AM PST by retrokitten (Hell yeah!)
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To: All

http://www.wfu.edu/academics/communication/Faculty/IndividualFac/llewllyn.html

Here's a pic of this tub of sh*t -


425 posted on 11/11/2004 6:38:09 AM PST by NotADove (My heroes wear fatigues)
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To: mykdsmom

This just proves that I did the right thing when I cancelled my subscription to the rag News & Observer a couple of months ago. People should respond to the N&O and point them to the real truth.


426 posted on 11/11/2004 6:41:21 AM PST by TommyDale
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To: TexasCowboy
"I have studied urban legends for nearly 20 years and have been certified as an expert on the subject in the federal courts."

I'm convinced: he is a FnKerry LAPDOG.

427 posted on 11/11/2004 6:43:21 AM PST by SheLion (President Bush received MORE votes ever in the period of History. The Rats need to get over it.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
I think it's time to bust him down to peewee in Kangaroo Court. ... Oh wait, this is Kangaroo court.
428 posted on 11/11/2004 6:53:21 AM PST by faux_hog
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To: zip

Amen....


429 posted on 11/11/2004 6:57:28 AM PST by faux_hog
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To: trisham

"Not to mention an abject liar."

Somebody ought to print out this thread and mail it to him. Or maybe 500 somebodies.


430 posted on 11/11/2004 6:57:40 AM PST by dsc (LIBERALS: If we weren't so darned civilized, there'd be a bounty on them.)
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To: mykdsmom

My cousin Butch was spit on.


431 posted on 11/11/2004 7:02:48 AM PST by handy (Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
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To: colorado tanker

After Vietnam
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/vietnam/downloads/homrighausen.pdf


432 posted on 11/11/2004 7:02:56 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: mykdsmom
Maya Lin designed the VietNam War memorial.

A documentary was made detailing the project from start to finish. It includes public testimony in which the leading veteran in opposition says he was spit on.

433 posted on 11/11/2004 7:04:30 AM PST by liberallarry
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To: RaceBannon
P.I. 1971...

I traveled in uniform on leave. Never experienced the hate and vitriol described in this thread. I long suspected that the spitting was isolated cases if they occurred at all. I grew up watching the war on TV and the media was no different then than it is today. They sensationalize the news.

I suspect some "false memory syndrome" at play judging from the responses of this thread.

Semper Fi!

434 posted on 11/11/2004 7:07:24 AM PST by sonofagun
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To: sonofagun; kdf1; AMERIKA; Lancey Howard; MudPuppy; SMEDLEYBUTLER; opbuzz; Snow Bunny; gitmogrunt; ..

False Memories??

I have serious doubts about that.


435 posted on 11/11/2004 7:10:25 AM PST by RaceBannon (Arab Media pulled out of Fallujah; Could we get the MSM to pull out of America??)
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To: RaceBannon
Nine years:

Parris Island, Camp Lejeune, Fort Gordon (MP School), MCB Norfolk, NAS Millington, NAS Oceana, MCAS Cherry Point, NAS Fallon, Quantico (Staff NCO Academy), San Diego (Recruiter School), Laffayette Indiana (Recruiter).

Never experienced any of this crap outside a bar I shouldn't have been in anyway.

I was even treated with the respect a military man deserves on many occasions.

I can't see how I could have been so far out of the loop.

436 posted on 11/11/2004 7:21:18 AM PST by sonofagun
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To: rogercolleridge

Give this a look when you get a chance.


437 posted on 11/11/2004 7:30:17 AM PST by LisaFab
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To: kaferhaus

Good for you! GRRRR!
Letters like the tripe this "educator" came up with is disgraceful.
By the way, thank you so much for your service to this country.


438 posted on 11/11/2004 7:31:30 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (Looking forward to '08........)
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To: lightingguy

Forgot to ping you. This is outrageous.


439 posted on 11/11/2004 7:31:39 AM PST by agrace (Thank you veterans!)
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To: brazzaville
Ahhhh! I hear that my friend.

I transited through Ft. Dix NJ.

Californicate is another place I avoid.

I spent my tour in West Germany so all my experiences occurred on the East coast and then again on the college campus when I attended school under the GI bill.

440 posted on 11/11/2004 7:32:02 AM PST by Cold Heat (There is more to do! "Mr. Kerry, about that Navy discharge?")
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