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| | Smearing Anti-War Activists? |
 | | Though the piece appeared on the Times' op-ed page, the paper has a responsibility to verify such claims--particularly when, as in this case, they serve as the premise of a column. |
 | | Moreover, such anecdotes have the potential to smear an entire political movement, and live on long after they are published. |
 | | Accounts of Vietnam vets being spit upon by anti-war protesters, for example, persist to this day (Newsweek, 6/12/06)--despite the fact that it is difficult to corroborate any of those alleged incidents (see The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, by Jerry Lembcke). |
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