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Re: Anti-War Up - Nobody Spat On American GIs!
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Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D.
Jul 17, 2015, 6:17:55 PM7/17/15
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redv...@gmail.com wrote:
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> http://www.militaryproject.org/PDF/vol13/Military%20Resistance%2013G4%20Nobody%20Spat.pdf
Nice historical article, especially the photo of marching anti-war vets.
“Rather Than Being Spit On, Returning GIs And Veterans Led Anti-War Demonstrations”
“Activists Had Reached Out And Recruited Veterans To The Cause Of Ending The War”
“Thousands Of Service Personnel Returning From Southeast Asia Joined The Anti-War Movement”
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Stories of spat-on veterans began proliferating in the U.S. media in 1990 as the country
ramped up for the first Persian Gulf War.
Anti-war activists had spat on troops returning from Vietnam, or so the stories went, and
to make sure that did not happen again, Americans were urged to rally around the men
and women dispatched to the Gulf. Within weeks, the nation was awash with yellow
ribbons, symbols of support for troops, and by inference, the mission on which they had
been sent.
Rather than being spit on, returning GIs and veterans led anti-war demonstrations, as in
this photo from 1970. [photo]
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[yeah right, gangs of Militant Hippies attacked the Candy-Assed Warriors who
could not defend themselves...no wonder we lost the Vietnam war.]
;-)
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> http://www.militaryproject.org/PDF/vol13/Military%20Resistance%2013G4%20Nobody%20Spat.pdf
Nice historical article, especially the photo of marching anti-war vets.
“Rather Than Being Spit On, Returning GIs And Veterans Led Anti-War Demonstrations”
“Activists Had Reached Out And Recruited Veterans To The Cause Of Ending The War”
“Thousands Of Service Personnel Returning From Southeast Asia Joined The Anti-War Movement”
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Stories of spat-on veterans began proliferating in the U.S. media in 1990 as the country
ramped up for the first Persian Gulf War.
Anti-war activists had spat on troops returning from Vietnam, or so the stories went, and
to make sure that did not happen again, Americans were urged to rally around the men
and women dispatched to the Gulf. Within weeks, the nation was awash with yellow
ribbons, symbols of support for troops, and by inference, the mission on which they had
been sent.
Rather than being spit on, returning GIs and veterans led anti-war demonstrations, as in
this photo from 1970. [photo]
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[yeah right, gangs of Militant Hippies attacked the Candy-Assed Warriors who
could not defend themselves...no wonder we lost the Vietnam war.]
;-)
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