The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam cover
The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam
by Jerry Lembcke
ISBN: 0814751474
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stdplaceholder · 2018-12-19 · Original thread
To give _you_ some context on this, attacks by protesters on returning troops from Vietnam is a myth. The reason people venerate "the troops" today is 50 years of concerted right-wing militaristic propaganda which serves to deflect legitimate debate by classifying any kind of criticism as being "against the troops".

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