[MR] [atlantianrapiernet] OT: Remember this day...

[Roy B. Scherer]

At 11:18 AM 11/12/2010, Eric Rankin wrote:
>I've heard many
>stories from my brothers and sisters in arms who laid the path for me back in
>Vietnam of coming home and being spit upon, cursed, and even at 
>times physically
>attacked.

         You know, I've heard those stories too.  What I have NOT heard is any
single person, ever, telling me that this happened to him or her, or 
that he or
she did this to any veteran.
         I became active in the anti-Viet Nam War movement back around 1965,
about 2 1/2 years after I got my discharge from the Air Force.  I waqs greatly
influenced by a man who had been a 'copter pilot in Nam, and had first-hand
experience of the difficulties resulting from fighting a war with one 
hand tied
behind our backs.
         Again, I've often read of veterans being spat upon, but I 
never heard of
this from a spitter or from a veteran who was spat upon.
         I knew (and know) a wide range of people.  I've never known anyone on
the anti-war side who had personal animosity toward any member of the Services
who went out and did their duty, laying their lives on the 
line.  Indeed, many of
those whom I knew in the movement were themselves veterans.
         Has anyone else ever witnessed this first-hand?  Failing that, has
anyone ever heard a FIRST-HAND account of such an incident?  Is it possible
that this is something that perhaps actualy happened once or twice, and was
then taken up and reported throughout the country?
-- Britton
-- mka Scherer, Roy B.
-- formerly USAF ADC, 95th FIS

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