"To Get to Your Aircraft You Have to Run the Gauntlet"

A Veterans' Day Paranoid Fantasy!

Or, maybe it's just an Over - Medicated Fantasy?

Of the Returning Vietnam Veteran confronting Terrible - as*s Hippies at the San Francisco Airport genre!


Here's a relevant snippet from Norman Fulkerson's own peculiar version of Medal of Honor recipient Sammy Davis' experience at the San Francisco Airport.

Perhaps unwisely published verbatim in the magazine Crusade for November / December 2010. www.tfp.org. Zero signs of editorial insight!

Whether or not Fulkerson even bothered to check this story out with Mr. Davis directly is anyone's guess! Mine is that he didn't even care enough to try...

Sound harsh? Read on!

"To Get to Your Aircraft You Have to Run the Gauntlet"

"While he waited to board his final flight home to Indiana he noticed 20 hippies milling around suspiciously in the San Francisco airport.

"To circumvent the laws forbidding clubs, the hippies pretended to be disabled and carried canes instead.

"They also had brown bags full of the nastiest things you can think of such as dog droppings.

"Sensing trouble afoot, one of the soldiers traveling with Private Davis reminded him of their sergeant's specific orders.

"They were explicitly forbidden to retaliate should someone start an altercation.

"The media would inevitably spin it against the returning soldiers.

""[O]ne of the hippies said, Hey, if you want to get to your aircraft, you have to run the gauntlet.

"Private Davis recounts how he decided they would not run the gauntlet, they would walk it, and do so with pride and dignity.

"The first hippie began rubbing the contents of their bags in the soldiers' hair, on their face [sic] and stuffing it into their ears.

"When they failed to get the desired response to their revolutionary aggression, they began beating them with their canes, which opened up head wounds, causing Private Davis and the others to bleed profusely.

"Yet through it all, Private Davis accepted these injustices with dignity and kept his composure until the end..."

Oh, my!

The "end" of what?

Gave his life for the San Francisco media, Sergeant Mohandas Gandhi or what? :)

Exactly? :)

TIP: Fulkerson cites a blogger named Kelly Harper, University of Iowa. edu -- and so on and so forth as his "source!"