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[Doug Schuler]

I agree -- it MAY have happened once or twice.  But from what I saw
there was quite a bit of agreement and, even, solidarity between
the soldiers and the protesters.  I remember hitchhiking by
Fort Lewis and almost every GI giving me the peace sign and they
went by on a convoy.  I remember spending quite a bit of time
also with GIs in Germany.  I cringe when I think how much the
right likes to keep this spitting idea alive.

-- Doug

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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, J. Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Joe Mabel wrote:
> 
> > I'd love to know the history of this cliche of the anti-war movement
> > spitting at returning soldiers. ... 
> 
> I heard something once that something of the sort happened at Travis
> AFB--or some airport in California.  An extreme, isolated incident at the
> most--but a powerful symbol for those would believe it was so.
> 
> I don't believe it was so generally, or even significantly, and have good
> grounds for saying so because I was both in the war, and against the war.
> If we had been spitting at returned soldiers it would have been very
> slippery doings as about half the people I worked with in protesting the
> war were active duty military. 
> 
> === JJ =============================================================
> 
> 
> 
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