re: #159 whitebeach

There is a huge body of folklore of this kind promulgated every time it offers a path to power. Look at the “spitting image” pushed by the Nixon crims, about how returning Vietnam vets were subject to this huge and widespread abuse. Documentation? Zero.

People want to believe stuff. When I was a kid, you could find lots of codgers who claimed to have seen Babe Ruth “call his shot” on a home run, although not a single account from the time even mentioned such a thing.

Legends are so interesting in that way.