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Officials in Bergdahl's Town Deluged With Hateful Right Wing Phone Calls, Cancel Celebration

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸6/04/2014 3:43:35 pm PDT

re: #230 Lidane

For the Lizards who might remember, is this reaction and hate against Bergdahl anything like what Vietnam veterans were getting from people when they came home? I’m having a hard time thinking of a time that I’ve ever seen a POW being treated as if he was a serial killer who should have been left to rot with his captors.

the whole idea that vietnam veterans got a bad reaction when they came home has been vastly overblown

there may have been some people somewhere that called them killers, but the 1968-era wingnut reaction blew up a very few scattered incidents into much much more than it ever was in reality