Protesters "spitting on Vietnam vets" just a Nixon myth??? [View All]

[LynnTheDem]

My hubby is a vet, altho not Vietnam, so we have a ton of pals who are Viet vets and every one of them either laughs or gets pissed off if anyone says anything about VVs having been spat on, coz they all say it's not true, it never happened.

I'm sure it happened in isolated incidences BUT...to date after a lot of searching, I've not found a single news article that mentions any kind of protesters doing anything to the VVs. I found individuals who say it was very common (and make it sound like all VVs were dripping in spit) and various books that say this, funny enuf all of them Republicans, but no <b>actual news articles.</b>

Not a single article about any disturbances at any US airports. Wouldn't something like that have been reported on, coz I gotta tell ya, any of the VVs we know, you spit on them or push them around or scream in their faces, and yer gonna get yer lights punched out. I would have thought that kind of thing would have made the news.

Next thing, most Vietnam vets landed on US base airports...there is NO WAY any non military-card-holders were allowed onto these bases, so what's with all the Republican accusations of vets being spat on in airports?

I did manage to find one incident in which WWII vets, dressed in uniform, were protesting the Vietnam war and were heckled & spat on...by RIGHTWINGERS who SUPPORTED the Vietnam war.

But not a dang thing about VVs being spat on.

I also found old articles that said this was actually a Nixon myth, spread about on Nixon's orders as another means of discrediting the anti-war groups.

With what we know about Nixon and his little games such as with John O'Neil, my total inability to find any article at all about it, and especially with our VV pals all saying it never happened, I'm really wondering now; did it happen or was that actually a myth?

Can any posters with better research skills than me try their luck? The curiousity is getting to me, lol!