Spitting On Returning Troops

I only know of one instance--televised--of returning troops being spit on. It was in Seattle.

Otherwise, I know of a few instances--not many--in which returnees were _criticized_. Gee, those big brave men so sensitive to the exercise of the right to criticize by those who disagreed!

In reality, every "failure" to crown the returnees "heroes" is met with hyperbolic whining about all the "injustice" of not being praised and lauded for having compounded error.

What we need, it seems, is a focused history of the issue of spitting on returning troops; document them all (at the same time being careful to weed out those who claim to have fought in Viet Nam but did not). Might actually get a pamphlet-sized publication out of that.

All the protesters I knew were _supportive_ of the troops--though perhaps not in the ways the troops demanded: that they be praised as the heroes they were not while they strutted as centers of attention.

It's overdue that the returnees accept the fact that they were gullible and mistaken, instead of abusing those who remind them of that fact.