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because as a historian he looked for records. If much spitting occurred, there ought to be some hardcopy on it from then: specific LTTE etc. If it exists, it's scarce. Such spitting would have been politically disasterous for organizing by anti-war groups like VVAW.
Once in bar heard the story repeated as personal experience: soldier off airplane in San Francisco, spit on by civilian, started to beat shit out of spitter, pulled off by officer. Took this at face value. Expressed disgust, sympathy, and grief that VN divided America for so long. Nobody I knew did that. Waited for more: the topic changed. Cordially encountered the fellow once or twice again.
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