After Jack Shafer of Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2158608?nav=tap3), quoted Jerry Lembcke’s Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam and challenged those who still believed that Vietnam Vets were often spit on upon their return home, Dan Riehl of The Riehl World blog (http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/02/resolving_the_s.html) took Jack Shafer on his google challenge and found numerous accounts of U.S. Vietnam Vets giving first-hand accounts of their being spit upon on their return.
The question is, why would Leftists lie about something so well documented, so undeniably established?
Could it be to set the groundwork of denial over a recent, disgusting example of a returning Iraqi vet spit on at an anti-war rally in D.C. Joshua Sparling an amputee, still recovering from wounds that must heal before he can be fitted for a prosthetic device, has given a first person account of being spit on by a protester at that event.
Dan Riehl ends his “Resolving the Spitting Debate with, “As the Jawa Report suggests, the notion that returning veterans weren't abused, particularly by spitting, after Vietnam is simply pathetic revisionism by an increasingly revolting Left that opposes the war, while claiming to support the troops.
“Were that so, they would not be so interested in revising history and, by default, calling so many of our troops, both past and present, liars to boot.
“So, can we question their patriotism now?”
Without question Dan, yes you can!
The question is, why would Leftists lie about something so well documented, so undeniably established?
Could it be to set the groundwork of denial over a recent, disgusting example of a returning Iraqi vet spit on at an anti-war rally in D.C. Joshua Sparling an amputee, still recovering from wounds that must heal before he can be fitted for a prosthetic device, has given a first person account of being spit on by a protester at that event.
Dan Riehl ends his “Resolving the Spitting Debate with, “As the Jawa Report suggests, the notion that returning veterans weren't abused, particularly by spitting, after Vietnam is simply pathetic revisionism by an increasingly revolting Left that opposes the war, while claiming to support the troops.
“Were that so, they would not be so interested in revising history and, by default, calling so many of our troops, both past and present, liars to boot.
“So, can we question their patriotism now?”
Without question Dan, yes you can!
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