Posted on 08/05/2016 1:50:03 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine
Both my dad and our Pastor served in Vietnam.
They wanted me to remind all the Vets here that the clintons were part of the Jane Fonda/John Kerry group.
The clintons were part of the group that spit on returning servicemen calling them baby killers.
I was responding to another poster, but by all means, thank your father and your Pastor for me for their service to our country. God bless.
I shall.
I hope and pray that she grew out of that and told you she was sorry...Family is all a lot of Vietnam vets had when we returned....
When they were in the WH, they had military OFFICERS serving hors d’oeuvres!....................
Your dad and mine too.
That is why they asked me to post it. Just a reminder.
It is what the schools and tv news taught.
thank you.
Somewhere there is. But there's only a 50% chance that it is owned by someone who hates the Clintons as much as you and I do.
I’m not calling you a liar. I’m saying using information such as that without proof (photographic or news story from the time with names, for example) is counterproductive.
Mine too. I once asked him whether he'd been treated badly after we got back stateside, and he told me he hadn't experienced ill treatment from civilians a single time.
Like your dad, mine was real jumpy for a good while after Nam. I think he would have knocked the crap out of any hippie who tried to spit on him.
You all were treated so badly, it always broke my heart. Now, decades later, people are trying to make up for that... except many will happily vote for Hillary! who has a long history of disrespecting the military. I don’t think, tho, that the OP’s dad and pastor meant Hillary! was one of those who *literally* spat in the faces of returning troops, but did so thru their protests, etc. It was a horrible time. Just horrible.
IMO, it’s a little too late to try and make it up to us...For the people who are trying to make it up, do this:
Go up to anyone in uniform and thank them for their service and wish them well...
It means a lot to them and also to us vets....
It was unfortunately too common!
One of my BIL’s served in Nam in the Big Red One for his second year after he was drafted.
On his way home after his time in Nam, he and others were spit at and cursed at in Seattle getting of the plane in the terminal and on the way to the United area for the remainder of his flight home.
Once the plane got into the no seatbelt altitude, the flight crew came and to each guy asked the service guys to go the pilots cabin and wait until the asked them in one at a time. In the pilot/copilot area, each service man was told that protesters were waiting for them to deplane in the terminal.
The pilots suggested getting a relative to bring a brown paper sack of civilian clothes and shoes to the United terminal. Then they would be escorted to the plane after it landed to hand off the clothes.
His older bro, all 6’5” drove to the airport with the sack of civi clothes. An UA employee took the sack to my BIL, and he changed and left his uniform and army shoes in a sack on his seat and told the attendant he didn’t want them.
He was not able to talk about that until 40 years later after the death of his mother. He didn’t want his parents to know about that.
I finished my Naval reserve time, 3 years in the DC area, 1964-67. Sometime in 1965, we were told not to wear our uniforms to the reserve meetings and to and from and on our two week active duty assignments. I had zero military stickers on our vehicles
Many of us carried a pistol in our briefcases or gym bags to and from the reserve centers.
The local cops were in the reserve centers parking lots before, during and shortly after our meetings. Most of us took donuts or cookies in for them and brought out coffee for them when our meetings were over. We were advised by the cops to go home in a different way each trip and try to have a buddy in your car or behind you.
My brother, Air Force, returned from Vietnam via San Francisco with a bunch of Marines on the same flight. They encountered the same reception. He and the Marines, mostly Marines, made “short work” of their objections. One should not F with men that have been shot at for the last 18 months. Their sense of humor is rather short.
One should not spit on a man whom has been under fire for the last year and a half. They are not amused.
Can you confirm?
Cheers, ‘Pod
No.
Okay,
ME,
Vietnam Era Vet,
Why am I boiling about the Anti War Crap heads from the seventys’ ???
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Thanks ,I feel better.
I’ve read that there are no confirmed instances of soldiers being spit on or being called baby killers to their faces. I’ve never personally met any.
I know when I came home from overseas I was not mistreated at all. But, like the poster above, I got a lot of dirty looks the entire four years I was in (69-73). And because of that I didn’t wear my uniform with the exception of flying home or to another duty station and getting a reduced fare.
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