Okay. I totally accept that this must have happened. But my gut is telling me that it was difinitely not on the scale (or even close to it) that we're being led to believe.
I don't know about you, but I'd feel a little bit suicidal in going up to a veteran of the Vietnam war and spitting in his face. Ya know, if I were a hippie and everything.
There's just something here that doesn't add up.
And I just got a feeling that, were it so widespread as to be accepted as a culturally dark and shameful moment, then.... we would certainly all know what it looked like. But we don't. Nobody has seen it.
And say what you will about partisan politics, you know damn well that when the first criticisms of the Iraq war started to trickle in, we'd all be bombarded by slow motion archive video of Vietnam vets getting spat upon to the soundtrack of the Star Spangled Banner. It'd be the first thing we'd see!
So while I don't deny that it probably happened, here.... and maybe there... I also don't consider it to rise to the level of debate quandary seriousness.
I accept it as a valid metaphor for the disrespect.
But truth is truth, and anything other is untruth. I draw a line.
