[RetiredArmy]

MSNBC can kiss my ass. I got spit on in the Atlanta airport on February 11, 1971. Tell MSNBC they can go *@&$^ themselves.

[minus_273]

according to MSNBC it an urban myth perpetuated by the right. Something to do with with spitting in the Bible (sorry i am not christian)

[Quilla]

I was just about to post that I read an account by a freeper yesterday who was spat on while returning home from Vietnam. My apologies for those who don't know enough to appreciate what you and others have done for them.

Thank you, sir, for your service to this country My family and I can't thank you enough for the freedoms you have fought for on our behalf.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

If Nixon hadn't caved into the minority anti-war crowd
and listened to the Silent Majority
Hanoi Jane AND Hanoi Kerry
would have been prosecuted for their treason in the 70's,
while Nixon was still President.

Keep in mind that Nixon was directly involved in Viet Nam,
as Vice President, going back to at least 1955.

So Hanoi Jane AND Hanoi Kerry keep a high profile,
and always watch your yellow backs.
Nixon is NOT HERE to protect you.
You are on your own.

26 Sep 1945 - The first death of an American serviceman in Vietnam occurred.
OSS (Office of Special Operations) Major (Lieutenant Colonel) A. Peter Dewey
was killed in action by the Communist Vietminh near Hanoi.
May 1950 President Harry S Truman authorised $10 million in aid to the French for their war in Viet Nam.
By January 1951, $150 million had been given in aid.
1953-61 Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th US President
1953-61 Richard M. Nixon Vice President
1953 - The US is supporting the French in the amount of $1 billion per year--
33% of all US foreign aid--which is 80% of the total cost to the
. US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles (under Eisenhower) first voices the 'Domino Theory':
if one country in Southeast Asia falls to the Communists, they will all fall, one by one.

12 Feb 55 - President Eisenhower's administration sends 1st 350 U.S. advisers to South Vietnam
to train the South Vietnamese Army

8 Jun 56 - The first American of record to die in Vietnam
was Air Force Tech Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr.
His son, Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, died in Vietnam Sep 7, 1965.
8 Jun 56 Has been formally recognized by the Pentagon as the first American officially to die in that war.

5 Sep 56 - President Eisenhower tells a news conference that the French are
"involved in a hopelessly losing war in Indochina" 1956 The US believed in that Ho Chi Minh would have won any election held in Viet Nam and used their influence over the government of the State of Viet Nam to ensure that the election was not held



From a Must Visit Site
Vipers Vietnam Veterans Page, A Vietnam Veteran & Proud Web Site
About Vietnam

The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history.
1st American advisor was killed on June 08, 1956,
and the last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled. Officially there are still 1,991 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia.

Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said: "ALL GAVE SOME ... SOME GAVE ALL"
The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran.  For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win. They were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, most neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers.  And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations because they were more interested in a story than the truth! It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.

[AngryJawa]

MSNBC can kiss my ass. I got spit on in the Atlanta airport on February 11, 1971. Tell MSNBC they can go *@&$^ themselves.

RA,

I was less than 3 years old when that happened to you, but I can't even begin to tell you how badly I feel about what you and your brothers-in-arms went through back then. THANK YOU for your service!

The unrepentent hippie spitters, Jane Fonda, and MSNBC can rot in hell.

[tiamat]

I have several military friends from the late Vietnam era and the Carter administration.

They all got that sort of thing, and usually more than once!

Heck, the ROTC boys at EMU used to have trouble!i witnessed some of thaat and those guyss hadn't even been in yet. This was 1980


(And THANK YOU, Retired Army, for your Service to our country!)

[tumblindice]

Some stinking hippie made the mistake of spitting at my old man in LAX the same year when he returned from his 2nd tour. He (airborne Ranger) 'mopped the floor' with the piece of dirt while security guards counted ceiling tiles.

[LS]

A couple of years ago, I specifically asked ANY Freeper who had direct knowledge of a spitting to put it on the thread, and we must have had 20 posts with personal experience or who personally saw this. I wish I could remember the name of the thread, but I can't.

[RangerVetNam]

"MSNBC can kiss my ass. I got spit on in the Atlanta airport on February 11, 1971. Tell MSNBC they can go *@&$^ themselves."

Me too, San Francisco airport, March 8, 1970! Not something one is likely to forget.

[Chinito]

"MSNBC can kiss my ass. I got spit on in the Atlanta airport on February 11, 1971. Tell MSNBC they can go *@&$^ themselves."

Amen, brother. Everytime I went through SFO (San Fran) I was always E&E'ing through that place.

[smiley]

...you got that right....oh and by the way....John Kerry really didn't throw his medals over the White House fence.....(sarcasm off)...

[vetvetdoug]

July 1974 in Biloxi I can tell you that the guy that spit on me got a fist in return and I got tossed from the bar.