Protesters against the Vietnam War are regularly accused of demonstrating against soldiers at airports, spitting on them and calling them “baby killers”. But there is not a single newspaper report from the time of an airport demonstration. 1/7 https://insidestory.org.au/the-enduring-myth-of-the-abusive-protesters/">https://insidestory.org.au/the-endur...
In Australia’s Vietnam, Paul Ham wrote of the protesters who supposedly attacked troops: “Perhaps silence is the only refuge open to them. If so, their silence condemns them: none has publicly recanted; none has apologised.”
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