[Intolerant in NJ]

I have studied urban legends for nearly 20 years and have been certified as an expert on the subject in the federal courts...wow, a certified expert on urban legends - like most profs, he has his head up his a$$ - I was greeted with the epithet "babykiller" on my way through the SF airport in 1966, years before John Kerry even got the chance to rev up the anti-military hatred which I'm sure resulted in much worse, including spitting, by the time he was done - I myself might have been the target of such spitting had the United Airlines agent who was apparently outraged and offended by my uniform not been at some distance across the ticket counter from me - of course the fact that I was not actually returning from Vietnam, but from eighteen months at the medical center on Okinawa, makes the "babykiller" silliness all the more disgusting.....

[Cold Heat]

I myself might have been the target of such spitting had the United Airlines agent who was apparently outraged and offended by my uniform not been at some distance across the ticket counter from me - of course the fact that I was not actually returning from Vietnam, but from eighteen months at the medical center on Okinawa, makes the "babykiller" silliness all the more disgusting.....

Yes, that is where I received most of the insults. At the friggin airports.

In order to get the cheaper standby, or sometimes free fares, you had to wear the uniform.

For some of those idiots it was a target of disrespect.

Once you got further inland from the East coast, the A'holes magically disappeared.

For this reason, and this reason alone, I have NEVER returned to the East coast for any reason.

[Alia]

Thank you for serving, Intolerant in NJ. I arrived with my family in San Francisco in 1965. Lived at the Presidio. I was a kid. I thought I'd landed in a war zone. Yes, the MSM have footage still in archives of how our military was treated -- ill. Did the professor ask the MSM for footage? I seriously doubt the MSM would have destroyed all that footage from the 60s, and how our military was treated by the hostiles.

And you know what movie I hated most!!! "Coming Home" with Jane Fonda and Jon Voight.