Word: spit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left in August: proud, resolute, united and overwhelmed with national purpose. You will be lavished with honors, medals and ribbons, streets named after you, Desert Storm ice cream flavors. You who wrote to us of your fears of coming home should not worry. No one will spit on you. You will not be called baby killers, and we promise that you will not grow old holding a sign in a subway station: I'M A VETERAN. CAN YOU SPARE SOME CHANGE...
...gender. You can kill the chivalry bit." She admits that it would be nice to put on a dress again, and clings to what femininity she can. "You can be tough and strong and still be a female," she says. "You don't need to be foulmouthed and spit...
...they have nothing to lose because it's not them doing the job. It's us," says Marine Lance Corporal Scott Gruenefeld, 20, of Columbia, Mo. "My main concern is that I don't want to be looked upon as doing something wrong. I don't want to be spit on when I go home...
...think that it is cruel and unsympathetic to the troops if you do not support the decision to put them into a war. They hope their side will be the only one recognized as supporting the troops, portraying the anti-war demonstrators as uncaring traitors who hate and would spit upon the soldiers who are fighting...
...napalm and eager to ravage the Vietnamese people My Lai-style. In the eyes of the anti-war movement, the soldiers bore as much guilt for the prosecution of an immoral imperialist war as the president, the Pentagon and the rest of the Establishment. Returning soldiers were shamed and spit upon...