re: #183 karmic_inquisitor

So you may get someone coming forward and you may find yourself shifting your demands much as Shafer has.

Not. Although you must admit, if it had been the widespread phenom that the myth now holds it to be, a line or two in a paper somewhere might be expected to exist. Not all media were anti-soldier in those days, any more than they are now.

There is far more “newspaper proof” of Obama’s birth than of the spitting story.

But thank you for your testimony. I will not move the goal posts. I accept it. But I’d still like to hear from an actual spat-upon Vietnam vet. I never said it didn’t happen - I maintain that the massive spitting fest was concocted out of a few incidents. And now it’s so firmly entrenched that almost any vet you meet is going to tell you about a guy he knows who knows a guy who heard about a guy getting dissed.

It’s called a legend. That’s how they arise.