The Wallace (poem) is historically inaccurate.
The Spitting Image . The book is an analysis of the widely believed , but historically inaccurate , urban legend that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by antiwar protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War . The Wallace (poem) . As the title suggests , it commemorates and eulogises the life and actions of the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace who lived a century and a half earlier . The poem is historically inaccurate , and mentions several events that never happened .