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Originally posted by LXAAlum
[B]Nor can I forget the image of my father coming home from his deployment to Vietnam, and a protestor coming up and spitting in his face in the airport - he wasn't even home an hour, and that was his homecoming greeting...you can imagine the effect that had on a 3 year old boy at the time (me).
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A truly black spot in the history of our country. I don't know about your dad, but many (most) of us in that era had little or no choice in terms of our military service, and the disrespect of those radical few who chose to act and react that way made a hard situation that much worse.
That kind of treatment of our military people was a national disgrace -- whether you were for or against the war.