![]() It seemed to me that if the spitting-on-soldiers stories were true, we should know it. I did not ask the question lightly, or out of idle curiosity. Were you spat upon when you returned from Vietnam? I raised the question in my syndicated newspaper column. "Bring the boys home." That was the message. ![]() One of the most popular chants during the anti-war marches was, "Stop the war in Vietnam, bring the boys home." You heard that at every peace rally in America. It was the leaders of gobernment, and the top generals - at least that is how it seemed in memory. By hippies.īut did that make sense? Even during the msot fervent days of anti-war protest, it seemed that it was not the soldiers whom protesters were maligning. The symbols of this new attitude are many - the Vietnam Memorial in Washington is the most dramatic, but the box-office successes of such movies as "Platoon" and "Full Metal Jacket" also are testimony that, while the nation may still be divided over the politics of the war, the soldiers themselves are finally being welcomed home with warmth and gratitude.Yet even while the country has begun to tell the Vietnam veterans that they are loved and respected, the stories have continued to ciruclate: When those veterans returned from Vietnam, they were spat upon. In recent years, as we all know, there has been an undeniable shift in the public's attitude toward the men who fought the Vietnam War. A soldier, fresh from Vietnam duty, wearing his uniform, gets off the plane at an American airport, where he is spat upon by "hippies." For some reason, in the stories it is always an airport where the spitting allegedly happened, and it is always "hippies" who allegedly did the spitting. For years I had been hearing stories that when American troops returned home from Vietnam, they were spat upon by anti-war protesters. ![]()
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