Rather than being spit on, returning GIs and veterans led anti-war demonstrations, as in this photo from 1970. Within weeks, the nation was awash with yellow ribbons, symbols of support for troops, and by inference, the mission on which they had been sent. Anti-war activists had spat on troops returning from Vietnam, or so the stories went, and to make sure that did not happen again, Americans were urged to rally around the men and women dispatched to the Gulf. Stories of spat-on veterans began proliferating in the US media in 1990 as the country ramped up for the first Persian Gulf War. Nobody Spat on Returning Vietnam GIs by Jerry Lembcke (from the Anderson Valley Advertiser, July 8, 2015) We can’t pay much but it’s a great place to appear. Anyway, if you get a copy of PTSD by Jerry Lembcke, we could use a review for O’Shaughnessy’s. Maybe I was put off by his inaccurate reference to me. It’s like he’s explaining to students instead of discussing with vets. And the really significant untold story is that Vietnam vets were treated with contempt and suspicion by US employers who had been led to believe that they were likely to be drug addicts… Lembcke has a new book called PTSD that I just got, expecting to dig it, but couldn’t quite.
Returning GIs were greeted with obvious contempt by some individuals. But I think Lembcke is wrong figuratively. I think he is literally correct -no snotty SDSer had the nerve to spit on GIs in an airport or anywhere else. Note to Ricardo: What follows is a piece by a man named Jerry Lembcke who challenges the validity of Nam vets getting spat on.
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