I know I'll get shit for this, but here goes:

[vietnam_war_vet]

58. You said: "Funny but I was a Viet Nam Vet and I never got spit on.

"And don't know anyone that was. But the meme was created and lives still to this day. "

Columnist/author/Pulitzer-prize winner Bob Greene thought almost exactly the same and said so in one of his nationally syndicated columns in 1988. In that column, he stated that he thought such incidents were nothing more than an urban myth.

He really kicked a hornet's nest. Virtually thousands of Vietnam Vets wrote and/or phoned him detailing their degrading, discriminatory, often vile incidents that they had experienced from our country's citizens after returning stateside from that war.

Greene then wrote a second column apologizing for his initial column. He then selected several hundred of the letters, contacted the veteran writers, and got permission to use/reprint those letters in an 1989 anthology, entitled: "Homecoming - When the Soldiers Returned From Vietnam."

In my opinion, Greene's book is worth your time to peruse. My letter is on pages 199 - 200.