AtDTDA 32: Fantasia on a Fantasia of Thomas Tallis Pt. 1

[Monte Davis]

Laura sez:

>  We never spat at returning vets...

As far as research can determine, neither did anyone else:

http://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Image-Memory-Legacy-Vietnam/dp/0814751474/ref
=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210424409&sr=8-1

Except: "the only documented instances show members of the VFW and American
Legion spitting on their less successful Vietnam peers" [in VVAW]

The bulk of the "vets were scorned and abused" meme comes from several
decades of "stab in the back" propaganda aimed at rewriting history to show
that we had victory in our grasp before the America-hating hippies and news
media snatched it away.

(By the same token, the "every WWII vet basked in parades and settled
happily into the American Century" was a back-projection; there were quite a
lot of mostly noir-ish books and movies in the late 1940s about those who
couldn't readjust.)