The profanities that I am ready to expel are enormous.
Just who did this person speak to??
I was spit upon, I had people throw beer bottles at me from their cars, and I heard Baby Killer many times, and I graduated Parris Island in 1977...5 years after combat ended in Vietnam!
This woman needs to be Freeped and HOW!!
I was asked by a democrat politician at a public meeting how many innocents I killed bombing the towns. I was called "General Ripper" by former friends. For the record: I was not even a pilot. I was not even in Vietnam. I was just an Air Force oficer. It was a rough time.
I saw true grace and courage when I saw my father step off the bus in Tulsa in 1972 after serving two tours in Viet Nam. A young woman screamed "baby raper!" at him. He turned to her and said, "I just fought for your right to say that!"
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!
And me also my friend. Me also. In the Atlanta airport. For this jackassed SOB, the date was February 11, 1972. That is no urban anything. It is real!
Here's the OP/Ed e-mail address at the newspaper who published this fool. A heap of letters repudiating this SOB is definitely in order.
https://miva.nando.com/contact_us/letter_editor.html
I was in an airport in 1982 and a gay guy at the check in counter was seriously trying to mess with me by talking all kinds of anti-war non-sense. I was home on leave and was with my father and brothers. I unloaded with a string of expletives at the MF and asked him if he was ready to die right there in the airport for what he was saying, because I was going to reach over and choke him with his own tie. I then ordered him to get someone else to serve me. Yes, it was real! Oh yeh, the family was shocked that I could say the things I did.
Don't waste your time.
These people are proud to be ignorant. They want to see themselves and their views in a more positive way. Hence they must rewrite history to suit them.
Some today, like even Kerry, are confronted with the truth of their past, and they don’t like it. So they redefine the intent, the motives of their actions. I threw my “ribbons”………
My father in law was in Vietnam. He was physically assaulted and spit upon on his return to Ohio. You don’t need to look hard or long to find THOUSANDS who were treated wrongly because of a sub culture in society which thought they were “cool”, “tough”, “rebellious” and somehow “moral” because the treated their own people who were doing their duty like this. People such as those who deny this and rewrite history also are the ones who deny the holocaust. They ask the questions they want to ask. Formulate them just right. Ask the people they select to be questioned and interpret the data the way they want.
Red6
I was in Air Force ROTC at the same time. My own sister asked how many babies did I napalm, and addressed me as "Blue Meanie".