No one saw or was a party to such attacks, yet everyone "knows" it happened. That the returning Vietnam veterans were "spat on and called baby killers" has now reached the level of gospel truth, most distressingly among those who were themselves part of the very movement being vilified by those claims. The implication is, of course, that while this person didn't do it, others must have "protested the soldiers," referring to the ubiquitous stories of soldiers and veterans being harassed, hounded, called baby killers and spat on by a variety of protesters and, as the stories usually go, "long haired hippies." Actually, this particular comment was part of a string of responses to someone who claimed he was "urinated on while in uniform." I protested the war but not the soldiers who'd been thru hell. Now take a close look at the above statement.
#SPAT UPON VIETNAM SOLDIERS RETURNING HOME SPIT ON SERIES#
Lembcke points out that the series promotes the established narrative that for Vietnam vets, the experience of coming home to a "hostile" public was "more traumatic than the war itself." As I will discuss here, Lembcke, a Vietnam veteran and Associate Professor Emeritus at Holy Cross College, has dedicated much of his life to countering and disproving that narrative. That's a comment made on my Facebook page when I posted Jerry Lembcke's very insightful review of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's series, The Vietnam War. It was beyond cruel what was done to Viet Nam vets. How many times have you heard, or even said yourself, something like this:
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