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LeftInTX

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1. I got a call from a Vietnam vet shortly after George Floyd. He's a public safety union guy.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2025, 12:39 PM

Sep 17

He was freaking out about the antipolice rhetoric and said that he was harassed at the airport when he returned from Vietnam. He went on and on about it. He seemed a bit traumatized about how he was treated when he returned.

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One of the ways we got here, the 60-year-old lie that anti-Vietnam war protesters spit on [View all] Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 OP

I got a call from a Vietnam vet shortly after George Floyd. He's a public safety union guy. LeftInTX Sep 17 #1

The biggest step to get us where we are was the supreme court in 2010 Autumn Sep 17 #2

... Prairie Gates Sep 17 #3

Same with angry witchy feminists destroying families cbabe Sep 17 #4

We can connect this to what happened to Hillary Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #5

I was insulated b/c my Vietnam year was my first year of 4 yr enlistment, meaning UTUSN Sep 17 #6

Thank you for your service. Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #7

Thank you for YOURS! - and, yes, I sort of went tangential on your main point that the spitting part UTUSN Sep 17 #8

Couple of things, when you thank you me for my service do you mean Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #9

No, I had no inkling UTUSN Sep 17 #10