Spitting on the Troops: Old Myth, New Rumors

[SheilaT]

8. The spitting on stories are either all bogus,

or so close to all as to be the same thing. Not a single incident of such spitting was reported back when the soldiers were returning from Vietnam. So while there may have been some isolated incidents back then, no one was exercised enough to bother to report it to the media.

And today, with a completely voluntary military who have chosen freely to enlist and fight in illegal and immoral wars, no one seems to be spitting on those returning soldiers, and in fact these days (I've seen this more than once) people go out of their way to thank men and women in uniform for their service.

Personally, I'm totally gobsmacked by that, and while I would NEVER spit on someone, and would probably not even indicate I think a person is an idiot to enlist, if any soldiers deserve a lack of respect, it's the current ones. Waterboarding and torture? Raping young girls and killing their families? Never being held accountable for various atrocities? While our soldiers in Vietnam were far from saints, I don't think they managed to accomplish a fraction of the horrors that have occurred in the past thirteen or fourteen years.