Well....

I was, myself, called a "baby killer" -- to be precise, it was "baby murderer." This was followed by a spitting, on the sidewalk, not on me, and the person walking away. And I wasn't even in Vietnam; I was in Korea back in '69! I did nothing about it, just let it pass as it wasn't worth it and besides, he was drunk. But that's by the way, and nobody ever asked me about it.

There's this, I copied it in full because you have to register with Seattle's KING-5 news:

"Bainbridge Island mayor apologizes to veteran for parade incident

"09:02 AM PDT on Thursday, July 15, 2004

"Associated Press

"BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. - Mayor Darlene Kordonowy has apologized to an Iraq War veteran who says he was called a murderer when he marched in a July 4 parade here.

"Even if politically we are perceived as left-leaning, it does not mean that is how we treat people," Kordonowy told The Sun newspaper of Bremerton. "We are also very tolerant and respectful of different points of view."

"Bainbridge Island is located six miles west of Seattle.

"Jason Gilson, 23, of East Bremerton, said he was carrying a sign reading "Veterans for Bush," when a man and a woman approached him and called him a murderer.

"You don't need to be attacking individuals for their partisanship," said Gilson, who as a Marine corporal was wounded in Nasiriyah early in the Iraq conflict. He is now in the Ready Reserve. "I was very unimpressed with the way the people of Bainbridge Island were."

"According to one account, the incident started when a parade announcer asked Gilson what he was a veteran of. Gilson said it was asked in a derisive manner.

"Deborah Cheadle, one of the announcers, has sent him a letter saying her question was not intended to offend him.

"The incident drew national attention after the Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed a July 9 column about it."

And there was an editorial about it in the Bainbridge Review.

I think that it did happen, but if I had been involved I wouldn't have made a big deal of it. Then again, I'm not exactly a "Veteran For Bush" either.