re: You wish
"I've never said I knew that spitting did not happen. In the book, I speculate that, given the raucous nature of the war years and the many years that the war and opposition went on, I'd be surprised if some veteran, sometime, someplace, would not have been spat on."
Sounds like a backtrack to me, but whatever. Coming from a man who also stated in the same book that posttraumatic stress disorder was a political creation of Nixen, I put very little stock into anything he says. He's no different than Al Franken, Michael Moore or any other leftwing political hack.