JoeB131
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No, there weren't.
If there were, you could post them here.
Instead, there was how he summarized stories he supposedly saw.
In fact, the ONLY link in the article was to the article in the that he was responding to. Which is behind a Paywall.
You see, this is what a link looks like.
Opinion | The Myth of the Spitting Antiwar Protester (Published 2017)
Nobody spat on returning Vietnam veterans. So why does the story persist?
Whoppers like these go unchallenged by reporters and scholars perhaps because of their memoirist first-person quality, stories told by the men who say it happened to them...
But you don’t believe the stories, right? she asked. Acknowledging that I could not prove the negative — that they were not true — I went on to say there is no corroboration or documentary evidence, such as newspaper reports from the time, that they are true. Many of the stories have implausible details, like returning soldiers deplaning at San Francisco Airport, where they were met by groups of spitting hippies. In fact, return flights landed at military air bases like Travis, from which protesters would have been barred. Others include claims that military authorities told them on returning flights to change into civilian clothes upon arrival lest they be attacked by protesters. Trash cans at the Los Angeles airport were piled high with abandoned uniforms, according to one eyewitness, a sight that would surely have been documented by news photographers — if it had existed.
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