Dr. John Llewellyn
(336) 759-7229
llewelly@wfu.edu
Oh really? In 1968 in Chicago, I watched a Marine Corp unit parading downtown. Hundreds of people lines the streets and actually booed them. I was the only one applauding and I got lots of dirty looks from other people around me. In San Francisco, it was not a good idea to wear a uniform for fear of liberal attacks.
As I told jimmyC once ... don't EVER let me see this ***** in front of my sights!
I suppose they followed Ted Koppel's lead and interviewed VC instead of those who served.
This author gives not two farthings for fact or truth, and his research is obviously only limited to perusing those who agree with his own worldview.
His full intent is bluster, to provoke. The author is cocking a snook, and spinning an agenda.
I read his article, and I see an old, tired, boring, cowardly man sitting on his toilet writing an article. Were he not tenured, he'd be at Park Square on a little box, screaming his rant at those busy on their way to and from work; and hoping you'd be putting some tin or bucks into his little cup.
Just because he has been accorded the title "professor" should in no way serve to empower his article, or his anti-military sentiment running like poison through this attempt at "intellectual" ponderings.
The scholar needs the warrior more than the warrior needs the scholar, at moment. Perhaps he's just feeling... BLUE.
email sent to this jerk off
Just as I predicted.
The election is over.
And the attacks on Viet Nam Vets start, in earnest.
AND ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, NY Times
and 99 Senators will say
"After all, they lied about Senator Kerry"
The President won, and rightly so.
And the Republicans picked up Senate and House seats.
And Viet Nam Vets are once again the butt of abusive treatment.
Dear Dr. Llewellyn:
Not to put a pin in your balloon sir, but either I was high on drugs I never used or insane at the time, but I for one was spit on when returning from Viet Nam. The incident happened at the San Francisco International Air Port.
I, a returning First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, was with an Air Force Major. We were confronted by two young men and one young lady, who were blocking out path, asking us questions such as how many babies had we killed and how many women we had raped, when the young lady stepped close to me and spit in my face.
I was, initially stunned and taken aback. I had no idea how to respond. I guess my anger was welling up within me as the young folks took off as the Air Force Major grabbed me and said something to the affect "that it wasn't worth it".
It certainly is a shame that you have taken the position as an authority on the subject and written that such activities didn't happen and are nothing more than Urban Legend.. They did and to more than just a few individuals.
This was in the spring of 1972 and to this day I feel the anti-war groups such that Lt. JG John Kerry formed were the instigators of those actions.In the early to mid 70's we really did live in a country that either sat silently back and said nothing or laid the blame for our misled adventure in Viet Nam at the feet of those who served.
John Kerry accused us of War Crimes and in his statements claimed many if not most of us developed drug habits while serving an ungrateful nation.
You can opine as much as you like, but I suggest you either have a political ax to grind or don't know what you are talking about. I suggest both.
Sincerely,
Greg Adams
Pierre, South Dakota
Should I get a response I will post it to the thread.
Just another flaming liberal who has spent his life in academia and has no real knowledge of life in the real world, IMHO.
What a creep and a liar.
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.
when you call him, tell the doc that it's a little too late for this blather.
so I guess he was with ALL VIETNAM VETS 24/365 when they returned?? idiot moron.....another of the Liberal Losers here in our North Carolina universities....
unless he can ABSOLUTELY PROVE NONE were spit on, how can anyone take his silly article serious.....
1 - What an ass. Thanks for posting this.
Iwonder if he would stand still while I demonstrate on him, how I was spit on in the early 1970's after returning from Vietnam?
Oh Boy!
INCOMING!
This could end up being one of the most inflammatory threads in FReeper history.
This guy really wrote this stuff?
http://www.justontheotherside.com/index.php?p=166
10/22/2004
The Right to Free Spit?
Anti-war Protester Spits on Marine Congressional Candidate
On Thursday night, an antiwar protestor in Milwaukee spit on a returned Iraqi war veteran, Marine Major Jerry Boyle. Boyle is a Republican candidate for Congress in Milwaukee. Boyle served in Operation Iraqi freedom and was posted to Baghdad shortly after the invasion. Although he is an underdog in the race, he has shown up for every campaign forum, where he’s won high marks for his civility and willing to face hostile audiences…
My email to Mr. Llewellyn
Dear John,
I sincerely spit on you.
katnip
P.s. I wonder how much of your snail mail will be spit on before sending? Be sure to wash your hands.
how much you wanna bet this guy did his share of spitting
PLEASE folks!!
take 5 minutes and tell my local LIBERAL newspaper what you think of this guy and his so called "editorial" ... how the HELL does he know what happened with VVets.....
heres the links.. one is the newsroom, one is the editor..
please FReep BOTH!!.....and be sure and say its in reference to the article they choose to put in the paper without ANY MERIT ...or investigation other than one goofs opinion!
https://miva.nando.com/contact_us/letter_editor.html
https://miva.nando.com/contact_us/newsroom_feedback.html