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And certainly if it was at military Air Force bases, there couldn't have been protesters on the base, much less on the Tarmac or at gateside to meet people.
There are many stories of wounded Vietnam vets being unloaded, people on stretchers being carried from the plane, and they are spat on by protesters who are lining the walkways. Some of those stories really defy common sense, but these stories are picked up and they are used very authoritatively.
FIRST BLOOD (RAMBO), 1982: And I come back to the world, and I see all those maggots at the airport protesting me, spitting ...
calling me a baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh?
JERRY LEMBCKE, U.S. ARMY, SOCIOLOGY PROFESSOR: If you went back and looked at the front pages of newspapers in 1969, 1970, what you were going to see on the front pages of newspapers was about Vietnam vets. They were in the streets. They were political activists. They're on the Capitol Mall, and giving the Nixon Administration fits.
VIETNAM
VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR
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