One officer reported to the Armed Forces Journal Journal in 1971: Some of the most severe military unrest in US history happened during the war. Vietnam Veterans against the war was one of the largest & most influential anti-war organizations in the country and, in the later phases of the war, soldiers started killing their own officers with fragmentation grenades. Soldiers & veterans were actually major parts of the anti-war movement. The myth originated in movies a few years after the end of the war, and reached the height of its popularity in the early 1990s when politicians used it to justify the first Iraq war. All allegations of protestors spitting on returning soldiers were made after the war was over. There were newspaper reports of pro-war counter-demonstrators occasionally spitting on anti-war protesters, but that's the closest you'll get. There were no news reports or other accounts of it happening - not one, not even from the most ardent supporters of the war - during the war. When I got older and studied history more thoroughly I discovered that I had been taught a myth. Growing up in the late twentieth-century United States I, like many others, was taught that protestors against the Vietnam war spat on American soldiers when they returned home from the war.
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