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I was spat on while waiting for my flight home...San Francisco Airport Sept 1969

We were told that it would be a good idea for us to change into civilian clothes as protestors were attacking returning Vietnam vets..

The protestors were waiting for us at the airport ...they were somewhat restrained by the police but many would break through the barracades to throw stuff at us...As I recall they were throwing dog crap wrapped in sandwitch bags and the occasional rock.

A Marine and I were both hoping to catch a standby ride to Chicago and were waiting to hear if we could get on the next flight out..when a very pretty young blonde girl in a blue flowered dress came up to us and asked us if we had just gotten back from Vietnam ...we both enthusiastically said yes..(she was really pretty) ...she frowned called us "baby killers" and spat on both of us.

The Marine was closer and came out of shock quicker than I did and hit her in the face...with the back of his hand...she went down pretty hard and the next thing I knew there were cops all over us...in the end they hauled her away and he and I sat there for a while and were pretty upset not believing what was happening in our country...

We had just about giving up on trying to get a standby flight as everything was booked..when we were told the airline was bringing a Chicago bound flight back to the boarding area..They kicked two hippies off the flight who were flying standby and who had gotten into first class...The hippies were told that military standbys had precedence...and were ranting and raving as they had to give up their seats to us... (explative deleted)...

The passengers cheered as they were kicked off and we boarded.. bringing big smiles to us both..

I've pretty much disliked UC Berkeley students ever since...Univ of Wi. Profs werent much better they just learned to spit with their grade books

Little did we know then that these same bastards would take over the Democratic party and one of their kind would actually be elected President..and many more would help themselves to positions of power as congresspersons, senators ,heads of state, and take over the top law enforcement jobs and even serve as intelligence agents..

Little did we know then that these same bastards would take over the Democratic party and one of their kind would actually be elected President..and many more would help themselves to positions of power as congresspersons, senators ,heads of state, and take over the top law enforcement jobs and even serve as intelligence agents..

That's right, and they're still spitting...

What many don't understand, is that spitting on Vietnam vets is also spitting on all the Vietnamese refugees and the memory of their dead. To dishonor the veteran is to take the side of his adversary, a soulless and brutal force for evil.

Interesting that the victims of Communism never enter into their equations. From what did they think the Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese were fleeing? Why did nearly a million move to the South, while only 50,000 subversion agents and commie soldiers move North? The survivors of Communist regimes often find homes here in the US and elsewhere in the West, don't their stories make it to the ears of the Left?

Certainly, there were some sick or damaged men in Vietnam, but this is true in every war, and most men conducted themselves honorably in combat and patrol.