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...who allegedly spat on the Viet Nam vets and the vets who fielded that spit. The author couldn't find them and concluded that the stories, however ubiquitous, are apocryphal. Although spurious, they serve an essential function in squelching dissent. Like other Salon readers, I squirm when I see the yellow ribbon on an SUV. I urge all vets' organizations to target such beribboned vehicles. Stop them and procure donations. Stop them again and again and procure more and more money. After all, if such people truly support the troops, they will give and give.
Sadly, I can assure all that if vets' organizations started stopping beribboned SUVs, their owners would remove the stickers. They support the troops in much the same way as the proselytizing alleged Christian who steps over the homeless man supports the tenets of the Christ: with syllables.
