Comments on: Spit at a Soldier Day http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/ Are Liberals Annoyed Yet? Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:15:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Stout Republican » Blog Archive » Infotainment http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3213 The Stout Republican » Blog Archive » Infotainment Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:05:47 +0000 http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/#comment-3213 [...] A while ago I wrote a post called “Spit at a Soldier Day“. One of the responses I received was from “rob thompson”, who it his dismissal stated: 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. [...] [...] A while ago I wrote a post called “Spit at a Soldier Day“. One of the responses I received was from “rob thompson”, who it his dismissal stated: 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. [...]

]]> By: The Stout Republican http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2657 The Stout Republican Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:36:08 +0000 http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/#comment-2657 There was a News Segment on it January 1971 on CBS news, a <a href="http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1971-12/1971-12-27-CBS-17.html" rel="nofollow">medic Named Delmar Pickett</a>was 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 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345364082?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwviolentkicom&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0345364082" rel="nofollow">The Homecoming by Bob Greene</a>...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. 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.

]]> By: rob thompson http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2636 rob thompson Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:15:15 +0000 http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/#comment-2636 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 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

]]> By: The Stout Republican http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2507 The Stout Republican Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:41:51 +0000 http://www.stoutrepublican.com/2007/01/29/spit-at-a-soldier-day/#comment-2507 You watch 24...I forgive you for the factual stated laundry list of truthiness. Bauer trumps politics. Counting down...75 minutes. You watch 24…I forgive you for the factual stated laundry list of truthiness. Bauer trumps politics. Counting down…75 minutes.

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