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In reply to the discussion: Obama says Vietnam veterans too often 'denigrated' [View all]Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)7. denigrated most by leaders who sent them off to die in the first place
interestingly enough, it is those very same leaders and their successors who a) beat the drum loudest for more to go off to kill & die, and b) demand the most praise for their misdeeds that put others at risk. And this guy is no exception to that, but eh.
Political leaders of both parties and their business tycoon friends enjoy saying things like this, but don't do a fucking thing for the homeless vets I see every day. I do more for these people when I hand a $5 to somebody than the national leadership does with their far greater resources, don't need the fucking condescending lecture.
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Those that returned individually were often targeted at airports by groups that past judgment
may3rd
May 2012
#11
You are wrong. That book doesn't prove it didn't happen and the author said so to me on the
upaloopa
May 2012
#22
I had always thought the stories of returning soliders being maligned (called names or
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#34
You know something? Citing your own flame-bait OP and responses to it
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#44
So, I provide the proof yet an OP meant to honor the troops is "flamebait"
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2012
#48
Excuse me, but the "spitting on" or "spitting at" did happen to many. And I think it
humblebum
May 2012
#46
So, I take it you were following both of those two DU posters around in real life to be able to say
apocalypsehow
May 2012
#52
I appreciate. Bullshit like what that poster is peddling needs to be called out, and I have done so
apocalypsehow
May 2012
#60
I have read it sport, and it's mostly bullshit. For starters, GI's coming straight from combat zones
apocalypsehow
May 2012
#59
Putting it in quotes makes it not plagiarism. And...Yup... I earned that right! nt
Bigmack
May 2012
#69
Even there he's not being honest: he did not cite his quote, and spent 2/3rd's of his reply typing
apocalypsehow
May 2012
#71
Don't bother with the book - it's largely a mass of opinons, and not much substantiation. I believe
apocalypsehow
May 2012
#72
As a Vietnam vet I say thats nice but I really don't care about a lost reception decades ago.
HereSince1628
May 2012
#6
From an AP story today (just posted it), this fact jumped out - "230,000 new claims from Vietnam
sad sally
May 2012
#16
Sly Stalone, a Rambo pretend vet who pretended to have been spat upon so he could be a victim
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2012
#9
The controversy about Bush is the '72 and '73 period when he was in Alabama.
former9thward
May 2012
#15
"McCain did not crash five planes"? Another good story ruined by the facts.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2012
#17
He's probably the only one who crashed a plane in flight school and still be allowed to fly.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2012
#55
There weren't that many actual "draft dodgers." In the sense of being drafted and then finding a
yellowcanine
May 2012
#73
I wonder when you came home and where. I was treated like shit when I came home in 1968.
upaloopa
May 2012
#23
For claification, the similar experience = some say that it happened while others not only say
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2012
#30
Well I am not trying to convince you of anything or make you say anything you don't want to
upaloopa
May 2012
#33
Sorry to be extending this out but I always wanted to say this. I seems real funny to me that
upaloopa
May 2012
#49
I think all Vietnam vets (except maybe Westmoreland and Abrams) were victims of the
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#35