I think that such behavior is part of liberals stock in trade. Being vicious pigs is what they do best, when they think they can get away with it. Like when threatening an amputee. You hear that Honora, Jaher, shackler? It is no wonder that you aren’t commenting. You’re cowards like all your kind, and by not condemning this behavior it means that you condone it.

May God bless Sparling and his wife-to-be. May he give them many years together in happiness. He is a better man than anyone on the left, and he deserves all the happiness that he can have in life.

“We support the Troops but not their mission.” Uh huh. They sure have a funny way of showin’ it. Hey “Moonbeam”, or whatever your 60′s hippie name is, the Troops ARE the mission!

Pfc. Joshua Sparling
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001

Pfc. Sparling,

I saw you on FOX News. I congratulate you on your engagement, and am grateful that you serve to keep us safe here at home. We would like to send you something to both thank you for your service and share your joy in your marriage. Could you do one of the following?

- Open up a PO box and give me the address (warning, it will be published on the web).
- Create a website where donations are accepted.
- Let us know where you are registered (warning, it will be published on the web).

Any one choice will do. Most Americans love our troops, and have a special place in our hearts for people who have worked to keep us safe, and have lost so much for that noble goal. If you give us the ability to do this small thing to show you our support, it would make us proud.

(sorry for not mentioning hotair, but I didn’t want to cloud the issue… yet)

(txgal said)
Pfc. Joshua Sparling
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001

I’ll bet the same stuff is happenning to most of the other guys in uniform but not made public. The lefty idiot who sent the hate card to Josh at Walter Reed boasted that he had sent several others to other veteran’s hospitals. They probably got tossed in the trash without comment. Josh’s case became publicly known almost by accident, because a blogger published it.

I’ve heard a fair amount of ugly stories of public abuse of our military through the grapevine but the guys involved are embarassed by it and don’t want to dwell on it. They just want to press on to the positive. I believe there is a constant dribble of abuse of the military in public which is simply not being reported.

Josh Sparling’s story is representative, not an anomaly.

Yes they really did spit at (not on, at) him and call him names.  Via Hot Air.
Is this how the nutroots peacefully protest? Is this how they Support the Troops, but not the war?
Well this clip below has a familiar face to LSU, that of Joshua Sparl…

Update: Steve Doocy’s intro isn’t accurate, at least if the Times’s account is to be believed. Sparling was spit at, not on.

What’s the difference? Because the spitter had bad aim? Semantics.

(am I the only one thinking of Seinfeld, when Kramer and Newman were spit on by Roger McDowell hiding in by the gravely road, when all those years they thought it was Keith Hernandez? “That is one magic loogie!”)

Pfc. Joshua Sparling
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001

It was nice to finally see him in “person”. If H/A can post his address, I’d like to send him some financial aid.

My best wishes to the young couple, though.

[I]t’s hard to rile up a crowd when so many attendees are afraid to stray too far from the porta-potties

*snort*