TIRED OF HEARING KERRY CALLED A 'HERO'

mark steyn website ^ | February 17, 2004 | Sgt. Major Edward F. Komac

[timydnuc]

So much that Kerry has done absolutely makes me puke! I proudly served in Viet Nam (101st Airborne Ranger '67-'68) and after Viet Nam 1 year in Germany. I never would have even entertained a thought of protesting the war. Reason: I believed in what I did in Viet Nam. Thanks to the very french looking John F'in Kerry and his ilk in the commie left I got spit on one day in a tavern in New Jersey on the road back to my home (after mustering out at Ft. Dix). The guy was picking his teeth up off the floor and I didn't get to finish my cheeseburger and beer. The bartender held off his buddies while my Buddie and I hot footed it out of there before the cops came (bartender was a WWII combat infantry vet). We were in uniform, that's all the clothes we had (sent our civvies on home before we left Europe).

We (Viet Nam vets) put up with that crap so much that many of my brothers denied that they had been there or just didn't talk about it with anyone, not even wives, fathers or mothers. I was one of the ones that wouldn't deny, but I wouldn't talk about it much either. I would always stand up and defend my position against the scum that protested the war, other than that, I left it alone mostly.

Fonda, Kerry, commie scum, and the ignorant lefties did this to us. Thank you, John F'in Kerry and that NVA Ho Fonda. You both made my life after Viet Nam a living hell.

I have metals too, and I didn't throw them away. They are at the bottom a big steamer trunk and haven't seen the light of day for many, many years (and that's where they will stay until I'm ready to take them out). The last time they were out was when I was a junior in college (on the GI bill, of course). I was asked by the local VFW chapter in Bloomington, Indiana (Indiana University), where I was a member, to be in an honor guard (they needed vets that had dress blues, and I had them). The dress blue uniform required, at that time, that the full metal (not the ribbon) be worn. As I was getting dressed, in the dorm, for the ceremonies later, some of my fellow residents (students) came into my room to see my dress. I had gotten a "high and tight" haircut because it was appropriate for the uniform. They teased and taunted me but I ignored them. One of the other students called them off. He looked at my chest, then he looked at me and said, "Wow, that's for real"! I shook my head. He went on to explain to the other 'kids' what he had just seen. I don't have an MH, but I do have something that I think I never deserved. We'll just leave it at that. I never got much crap after that. But, then again, I don't lean on my metal to make me a man. It seems that the french looking John F'in Kerry NOW needs that Silver Star to make him president.

Personally, I'd like to take that metal of his and shove it up his rust pickin' ass.....sideways (that's hell on the 'roids). A Ranger could do that to a 'duck' with one hand tied behind his back. (If it quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it must be sailor! It's only a service joke, don't you Nav boys flame me too hard cause this old Ranger just loves the way you shoot them great ol' big guns on them boats you got and fly them fancy airplanes. I expect at least one flame on that one). Men that served in Viet Nam are now between the ages of 50 and 60 (I'm 56). That's not many votes, but it IS many pissed off voices.

Kerry is a disgrace to the names carved on THAT wall, and he is a disgrace to me, and my band of brothers, and every vet that served. Kerry is the communist that we fought against in Viet Nam, he became the enemy that he fought against, that's a shame. If he didn't have the strength to stand and deliver for his country, I don't want him within 200 miles of the White House. If you fight for this country and do it with honor don't you dare, ever quit. As far as I'm concerned, he (the very french looking John F'in Kerry) deserted to the communist left and was a DIRECT cause for the loss of the war in Viet Nam. If he can do this, with not even a twitch of conscience, he will betray the security of the country in a Boston minute. You and I be damned!

Now the commies say that GW didn't serve in Nam, he avoided the Nam by joining the National Guard as a FIGHTER PILOT. Well, what about those last 3 years he has served as the Commander in Chief. Do they think that this job is easy? Can you imagine the nights that this good man has spent on his knees, praying that he is doing the right thing. Can you imagine the President's bad dreams. None of us can, or ever will know what pain and trouble this man carries in his heart. In his head he knows what he has to do, but that doesn't make it any easier for the 'man at the top'.

The past really doesn't count. We have a war that will kill all of us, if we lose, and our President means to win this war.

This old vet would go again, and I want to, for this President. He's no phony, Kerry is a backstabbing, ketchup sucking, low down, sneaking, rotten bastard. I won't fight for that douche-bag. What Kerry wants is a bunch of wimps to take orders from some UN 'General'. It is NOT for me. I take orders from AMERICANS, and AMERICANS ONLY.

[ELBAC]

We thought Hannity's performance today deserved a response. Here it is. "Sean Hannity,
Listening to your show this afternoon I could detect a burr under your saddle when you were talking to your guest the VietNam Vet. I detected rudeness and your desire to listen to yourself rather than your distinguished Vet guest. Men like this deserve our courtesy and admiration. Yet, you kissed Koch's rear as though he is something special, and he isn't. And so you defended "F" word, Sleeze ball Kerry. Better wise up as to who your friends are old buddy.

[timydnuc]

I can't come up with words to tell you how I feel about your post. Superlatives can't get there. Thank you for your talent with words and images to tell a long story in a short time. Excellent!

[paul51]

It's like the old saying: The more you talk, the less you have to talk about. Kerry does a lot of talking about his service.

[eyespysomething]

I'm tired of people saying he's a double hero- for fighting in Vietnam and protesting afterwards.

No one's a hero for protesting in the USA.

Iran, yes. America, no.

[Doe Eyes]

The "heroes" have their names engraved, 58,000 of them, on a wall in Washington DC.

So were the protesters correct in spitting on the vets that came home alive?

[dennisw]

All truth in what you posted!!! Honor is honor but John Kerry is just riding on the coat tails of those Americans who perished and were grievously wounded (disabled, maybe in wheel chairs now) in Vietnam.

Many thanks big sky.

[BigSkyFreeper]

My Uncle doesn't think so.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I e-mailed it to Rush. Currently I'm not a Rush 24/7 member, so I don't know what kind of priority my e-mail will get. I suppose it will probably be sifted to the bottom of the pile. *shrug*

[onyx]

We're going to get to the real story surrounding his medals and that silver star. The FOI act will open his files and the Navy's records. It's a work in progress right now and TIME is on our side.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Thanks dennisw :)

When I saw that photograph on Rush's website, and having been to The Wall twice in my life, and after hearing the stirring and emotional story from a Vietnam Veteran who called into Rush's program today, I was inspired to set forth a challenge to John Kerry to really think twice about the wounds he opened up, that makes him unworthy to occupy the office of President Of The United States, based simply on his 16 year Senate voting record, and his "service" to the anti-war movement 33 years ago.

[cmotormac44]

"stolen valor" is right about Kerry and his war record---did anyone know that actor Lee Marvin and Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) both got Navy Crosses at Iwo Jima in WW2---Mr Rogers of tv childrens series was a Navy Seal in Nam(with 25 confirmed kills to his credit)--brave men who are heroes don't "brag"--blowhards do

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[dennisw]

I give infinite respect to your honorable Vietnam service. Yours is an eloquent testimony. Your post should be part of a thread "What Freeper veterans (Vietnam and otherwise) think about John Kerry's claims to heroism"

[Lancey Howard]

So you think that scumbag Kerry is a hero?

[Lancey Howard]

Bump for a great post.

[BigSkyFreeper]

That's how I feel. My Uncle who served in Vietnam in the Army never brags about his service in Vietnam. Real heroes are measured by those who speak highly of the heroes by which they look upon. My mother's father served in Korea, and only goes so far as to say he was stationed off Saipan, nothing more, nothing less. I look upon both my Uncle and Grandfather with the same kind of respect and honor as the many thousands of men and women who have gone to all four corners of this world to fight to protect the freedom for this country and the freedoms of those around the world.

I cannot however, look at Senator Kerry in the same regard as those who do not brag about medals or ribbons or who denigrate the service of those who proudly served without having to brag about it. Senator Kerry is a small man who feels the need to stand on the backs of those like my Uncle and Grandfather and countless other bona fide heroes just to look heroic. Military service runs deep and wide in my family, and I'm proud of each and every one of them. Senator Kerry touched a nerve with me when he denigrated Bush's honorable service in the ANG. I'm unable to join the military for physical reasons, but nothing angers me more than the traitorous past that Senator Kerry tries to keep buried from the American public.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Very powerful. Thank you.

[eeriegeno]

Thank you Sgt Maj for speaking out. It is vets like you who will show the world what it was really like in VN, not the twisted picture that John Kerry spins......

[timydnuc]

Let's not get 'Kerryied' away. I'm just an American that keeps this country running. I am not now, not have I ever been a 'hero'. I'm just a vet that won't let a liar, and a traitor stain the names of the brave men that died for the freedoms we all still enjoy. Those brave men saved my life, I just did my job. My favorite line about 'hero's' comes from a movie.."A hero is some kind of weird sandwich". That's about it. The stories are real, Kerry is the fake. The lives that lived the war are the story, not a cheap politician trying to enhance his influenced. The lives that were given are so much more important than the cheap crud that wants power and influence off of the graves of those brave men. The man lied about the war, he lied and brought dishonor on the brothers that saved his sorry ass. The elitist, the very french looking John F'in Kerry, now wants to the the Commander in Chief, not while I still draw breath!

Mr. Kerry is a piece of crud, and I will work my old, combat vet, butt off to defeat this lowlife.