Do you agree that no Vietnam Veterans were spit on when returning from Vietnam?

Question

Source": Urban Legend about Vets getting spit on. I, as a Veteran from 1969 to 1975, do here by tell all the truth...."The Vietnam Vets want all to feel sorry for them so they made the spitting legend to garner empathy from everyday Americans". 2nd Source:....I entered the USA in Uniform twice and not one ( And I mean Not One ) person ever spit on me.

Answer 1

Served my time in Vietnam and even though no one actually spit on me I know it happened. As a Veteran with a service connected disability and no medical benefits I feel like the Government spits on me everyday. Veterans are treated like crap while illegal Mexicans have more benefits.

Answer 2

It's no myth but rather liberal revisionist history. Read Bob Greene's publication of letters from Vietnam vets in the book Homecoming.

To claim that the harassing incidents were a myth is to say that they never happened when in fact, they did. First hand accounts of veterans cannot be discredited while speculation over the incidents can be. A myth is a story that is fabricated, an account that has no basis of reality; the veterans' accounts are by no means fabricated. What reason would the veterans have for lying? By making the argument that the incidents were a myth is to call the harassed veterans, liars.

Answer 3

Well since I was not there when it happened I must rely on the men I know that are Vietnam Veterans. Two of these men told that they had been spit on and worse. They landed in San Fran. One said that they were not even allowed wear their uniforms at the airport. People were on a walkway over where he had to walk to get to a bus. As far as things changing in a book I read call"Talking With Heroes" a soldier just out of AIT in Boston or some where around there was in a store to get some bluejeans wearing his dress greens when a older woman came up and called him a baby killer and spit on him. This was after Sept 11th.

Answer 4

You are mistaken in the impression you give that service members were not abused upon returning from Vietnam and in general during that time. When it becomes stylish to demean your Country, as it has to some these days, it becomes stylish to demean those who defend that country. See the remarks by Senators Durbin, Kerry and Reed to name just a few who have either implied or stated untruths about our soldiers today. This was the same case during the Vietnam era. I recommend that you read the book Stolen Valor and maybe your memory of those times will return. If not, just stick around till 2008 I am sure the same type of “right thinking” people will emerge once again and you can see it happen again first hand.

Answer 5

Actually I saw it happen to my father in the airport in LAX on his return. I was waiting at the Pan Am gate and he walked off the plane in uniform (this was before gateways) and this guy in a old army field jacket and long hair spit at him (it landed on the ground between the soldiers and the perp) or to be fair it could have been the group of soldiers my dad was with. Perhaps he was not singled out. I’ll remember it as long as I live 11 0ct 1969 was the date.

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations"
- Winston Churchill: My Early Life (1930) ch. 9.

Answer 6

Nobody ever spat on me, if they had I probably would have kicked the living sh*t out of them. I didn't wear my uniform other that when I was required, and I didn't talk to anyone about the war. When I was discharged from the Marines I let my hair grow long so nobody could ever tell that I was part of that night mare. I partied hard, kept quiet and never forgot those friends that didn't come home. I was angry that this country couldn't have given a crap whether we lived or died when we were in country, they were to busy living the good life and having fun. Take your myth and shove it

Answer 7

I saw it happen I have seen it on news clips, news footage, yes they were spat on by some dirty hippies...
If they had anything against the goverments decision to get involved in Nam, they should have spat at the politicians and not some kid that was made into a killer, trying to do what he thought was right at the time...The fools making those comments about not being spat on, probably never went over there, neither one said that they did....

Answer 8

The counter way of existence interior the 60's grew to become into approximately being against conformity. We have been extraordinarily threatened via the Soviet Union and it fairly freaked them out to boot to being compelled to serve in a relative death catch. there have been no tries to win the conflict because of fact we've been afraid of what the Soviets might do. It grew to become into run incompetently and micromanaged from the White abode. the main important distinction is the contest in this "conflict" in ninety 9% political partisanship so the squaddies are not incredibly resented. basically an entire fool might desire to forget approximately approximately what Saddam grew to become into. we are patently, to all people who's rational, attempting to establish a good government for the poeple of Iraq.

Answer 9

Perhaps you were not worth spitting on.

I received my "honker" from a woman at a bus stop in Chattanooga while enroute to my home. A policeman stopped me from knocking her into another Zip Code.

When I reentered college in February 68, I had one professor who "hated" me for having gone. I was screamed at and insulted by him in every class for three weeks until I got up from my chair, pushed him away from his lectern, and took over the class. He and I then had a serious discussion wher ehe was not much allowed to say a damned thing.

Answer 10

A friend's dad insists he was spit on upon returning from Vietnam. Knowing his character (and the lack of character by many of the protestors), I believe what he said.