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  • Edit- turns out I’m a purveyor of propaganda. Ignore the myths I spouted below.

    Pretty sure there are documented cases of Vietnam vets getting abuse when they returned. Spit on or or called Baby Murderers. This was before airport security so anyone could just hang out at airport terminals. Mai Lai massacre was real and publicized before the end of the war and you had veterans testifying before congress like John Kerry or throwing away their medals in front of crowds. The famous photo of the girl on fire was widely publicized, it won a pulitzer award.

    This might not have been the norm or even super common experience of returning vets, but I’m pretty sure it happened to more than a handful.

    Maybe others heard stories in bars and VA halls and remember the trauma vicariously, but the nation was deeply divided over the war. Kent State shooting didn’t happen in a vacuum.