Reply #132: I know, look at what I digged up....

[Solon]

Over at the "veteran's affair" place:

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PostPosted: Feb 14 2005 05:34 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
I do apologize for that Undercover Brother. Thank you for your service. I had a Zeal without knowledge. I am honored to meet you. Attitude is something I would imagine that would be second nature after three tours of Nam and I certainly don't fault those who have one.

Three tours? I have only met a few that served three tours and they have my sincere respect. The ones who served period do but three tours? That is a lot of courage my friend.

I saw and am seeing what has happened over at CU and jumped the gun, I do so sincerely apologize.

My husband said that when he landed in Washington State coming back from overseas. He went to Germany after Nam, that the hippies were throwing tomatoes and getting up in the returnees face. He punched one longhair down and stomped him. He said that he knows the way he was treated when he got home affected him. And he too has an attitude....I think all soldiers who saw battle up close and personal do.
I think the hippies just flamed that attitude. I was so ashamed of our generation and how those hippies treated our men and women. The nurses returning didn't get much better treatment upon their return either.

I had an experience in 68 about the hippies and the vets.
I had gone through school with several people and remained friends until one day this girl I had started out in grammer school with approached me at my home all decked out in braids and scandals with the local football star who also was decked out in Love beads and long hair. I had not sen them in about three months and was doing some work on the terrace and I still lived at home, going to college.

They approached me and I nearly did not recognize them. My true best friend and is so today was there. Her husband, she was very young, was on his way to Vietnam. He had enlisted in the Marines with three other friends of mine. The hippie folks I THOUGHT I knew all those years said, "Pick who you want to be friends with"! Right there in my house. I barely looked up and looked at my best friend whose husband was heading overseas and said, "You just did" ! I don't hang out with dirty filthy people and I don't know you at all anymore. See ya. You may leave now. My best friend hugged my neck.

I think that was the very first time I ever really knew what supporting our troops and vets was all about. I have not seen either one since that day but my friend who was on the porch, has remained my close friend throughout the years. Good call for a youngster., I would say. She was with me today, as we buried my brother in law, a Navy veteran. Ithought about those hippies Cheba and Dale as we looked at the casket with a Flag draped over it. We both talked about that day in 68. We still shake our heads in disgust.
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All emphasis is mine, but disgusting ain't it. She is apologetic over violent behavior that is inexcusable by her husband, assuming its true in the first place, so with that I leave the apologists to defend.