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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wearing his opinions
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:29:57 -0500 (CDT)
References: <4F9DF00B.9080800@threshinc.com> <65DA4D4E4F414ACFA040B358571995F0@Family>

I have heard that it was a myth that any returning soldiers from Vietnam 
were spat on.  That noone has ever found an actual person who was spat on.   
Maybe that's why he used quotation marks.


On Apr 30, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:

> "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote
> 
>> He's an ex-marine who served in Vietnam in the '60s. He told me he came 
>> back "pretty messed up." He has never forgotten that "they spat on us" 
>> when he and his comrades came home. "A lot of people think I'm crazy,"
> 
> Certainly, it appears his use of quotations marks is messed up. As for the 
> politics, I don't live in the US, but know enough to think that you all 
> appear to go for each others' throats at elections. So, yet another 
> manifestation of inter-party blood sport appears. This name calling is all 
> so tedious.
> 
> The portrait sums him up.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] IMG: Wearing his opinions)
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] IMG: Wearing his opinions)