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Spitting on Vietnam vets? Didn't happen.

Spitting on Vietnam vets? Didn't happen.

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Rob Archer
Apr 11, 2011
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The story that Vietnam vets, upon returning to America, were spat on and called "baby killers" is an urban legend concocted in a Stallone movie. But you might be surprised that the guy who injected it into the mainstream was Glenn Beck:

Beck then goes for the emotional jugular for the first time. The move comes in the form of a story about an unnamed "fr…

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