Spit at a Soldier Day
Being defined by the fringe? Maybe…but again…the silence on the left when it comes to outage against things like this is deafening:
There were a few tense moments, however, including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration’s policies in Iraq.
Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protesters spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back.
Laura Ingraham recently talked at a conservative summit, and gave props to James Webb for his rebuttal to the President’s State of the Union…why? Because he said America is good, the military is honorable, and our soldiers are Heroes. Conservative gave a silent nod…because he said something that Reid, Pelosi, Clinton, Kerry, Kucinich, Biden and co rarely say, and when they do, it’s always got a “*” beside it.
On the other hand, if you don’t respect the decisions of those in power…you can always destroy destroy destroy:
Approximately 300 protesters were allowed to take the steps and began to spray paint “anarchist symbols” and phrase such as “Our capitol building” and “you can’t stop us” around the area, the source said.
Who once said “Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism.” Not Jefferson. The KKK probably would be categorized a dissenters…I don’t see them as patriots.
Sincerely,
a pot smokin’, barefootin’, tree huggin’, love makin’, pro-choicing, gay wedding, lazy ass hippie…
You watch 24…I forgive you for the factual stated laundry list of truthiness. Bauer trumps politics. Counting down…75 minutes.
I’ve asked a lot of my Viet Nam veteran friends if they ever got spit on when they came back and they just scoffed. None ever said they were spit on. In fact knowing my vet friends, had any of them been spit on they would have punched someone’s lights out. I think the spitting thing is a myth.
RT
There was a News Segment on it January 1971 on CBS news, a medic Named Delmar Pickettwas spat on in Seattle, Washington…and I found that with just a prelim quick search through the Television News Archives…also documented in a book called The Homecoming by Bob Greene…both were accounts by Vets. So your friends weren’t spit on, but there were a lot of people in the war, and your friend are but a small sample. The rule for one, doesn’t make it the rule for all. I can say with full confidence every soldier was not spit on. However, I guess you can’t “think” it’s a myth anymore, because sourced material says it to be true…reason #113 I’m conservative. I look up my facts.