More on Veterans Who Were Spat Upon

Carl, a Vietnam veteran from the bad days of ’67, writes:

Even though an entire book has been written about the alleged spitting on returning Veterans of the Vietnam War to debunk most of the stories, I still read stories from alleged Veterans who insist they experienced the ‘classic’ spitting event at an airport together with beating the living crap out of the alleged long-haired hippies.
John Kass of the Chicago Tribune quoted a Chicago restaurant owner, another Vietnam Veteran, with the same, tired story. I told Kass in an e-mail the same thing I’m repeating to you: one thing happens to one soldier in the military. He tells the story to another soldier. Years later, thousands of Veterans are telling the same story as though every one had the exact same experience. I hate to say this about my fellow Vietnam Veterans (but not the posers out there), but it didn’t happen as often as the stories say. Most of this spitting crap began after one of the biggest draft dodgers, Sylvester Stallone, pretended to be a grunt in a movie.
Long-haired hippies are the easiest and favorite target of Veterans, but we should be targeting the real bad guys, the lying presidents and congressmen who allowed wars to be started based on a lie. The hippies and freaks don’t have any power to start wars, and little to stop them. Just look at George W. Bush’s recent performance when he said he had “some extra time to answer questions” from an audience that wasn’t ‘prepared.’ Bush “didn’t hear” one question, claimed he truly didn’t hear the question, then guessed “more or less” 30,000 Iraqis died since we invaded their country. Bush’s performance that day puts the finishing touch on the truth that he is without a doubt, the dumbest muther fukker since time began, and the luckiest. What sinister force allows someone so incompetent to remain in the White House as he kills over and over and over without as much as a baby’s fart of concern? America HAS to be doomed when it allows a war criminal of Bush’s magnitude to stay in power.

Nicely said.