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

[Eric Rankin]

I don't have first hand experience, but my father who was a Marine infantryman 
in Vietnam said when he came back in 1969, was with some of his buddies in 
uniform (don't remember where) and there were spit on, called baby killers, and 
had a group of people try to fight them.  Like I said, not first hand but from a 
trusted source that I belive has no reason to lie about it.




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From: Roy B. Scherer <rscherer at infionline.net>
To: Eric Rankin <jensman0514 at yahoo.com>; Atlantia <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Fri, November 12, 2010 11:51:16 AM
Subject: Re: [MR] [atlantianrapiernet] OT: Remember this day...

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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