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In reply to the discussion: Obama says Vietnam veterans too often 'denigrated' [View all]SGMRTDARMY
(599 posts)47. No problem.nt
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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