Posted on 11/12/2007 12:19:04 PM PST by Phil Harmonic
WEB EXTRA / Readers weigh in as wounds of Vietnam are reopened again . . .
I am writing in response to the article published on November 6th about U.S. Senator John Kerry. I find it hard to believe that the issue of Senator Kerry’s service to our country is being brought up yet again by one small group of people with an ax to grind.
- TIMOTHY P. MURRAY, Lt. Governor, Massachusetts
Dear Senator Kerry, it does not matter what dirt you have on them, what you use to prove you right and them wrong, you lost this battle, because to lose the support of your comrades that you served with in Vietnam tells me of serious issues with your leadership and the respect you did not earn at a critical time in your life. That respect is so easy to earn, and so hard to lose but you have done just that.
- ADDISON H. DeBOI, Mobile, Alabama
(Excerpt) Read more at ledger.southofboston.com ...
Mr. Genner's reportage of a Kerry comment several days ago seems to be getting considerable (and growing)attention. Some big guns are starting to appear.
Perhaps the The Patriot Ledger is becoming the focal point of a nascent anti-Kerry campaign for Senate '08.
Hmmm ... John F Kerry, .. did he serve in Viet Nam?
I don't know, but John F'n Kerry did. ;^)
I get hot under the collar when I remember the stink MSM and the demoncRATS made over Bush’s military record. Then when turnabout is fair play and there’s a public outcry to make skerry release his bloody records itemizing how he won (he didn’t earn) his 3 purple hearts it’s like the issue becomes DOA. And we still haven’t learned one bit more on this POS.
John Kerry also called the relatives of MIA’s “arm chair Rambos and malcontents” when he stabbed those left behind in the back in order for his family’s Real Estate company to get a billion dollar contract with the Communist government of Vietnam.
Hey, it was just an excerpt! Slicing it and dicing it is the objective.
GOOD catch though ;-)
No one has yet to see the SIGNED SF-180.
Until that form is signed and as a result the FULL-UNREDACTED military records are released including the DD-214 abd the DD-215, Kerry is a posturing, prevaricating, wooden-nickle, poppenjay!
Those are the kindest words I can use about Kerry.
Of course he did. There's no question about it, he has tons of pictures and 8mm footage of himself like any good officer would have (/s). The only thing open to question in my view is which side did he serve.
and those are way too kind...
I would get banned if I said what I think he is.
Many Vietnam veterans returned to civilian life with a contempt for government and politics. It took about 40 years for these veterans to become a decisive political force. That force struck like a big fist in 2004.
Let's be accurate here. Kerry DID sign 3 SF 180's releasing his records to a chosen few...ALL of whom might be arguably described as "in the tank" for Kerry.
Even Washington Post noted journalist Michael Dobbs was denied access to those records.
You do the math.
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NEVER FORGET
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No Joke.
JOHN KERRY =
..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. MoviePremieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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NEVER FORGET
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Didn’t he serve in Vietnam? Oh yes as a V.C. commander..
Meadow Muffin
Also heard that Hanoi Jane and Hanoi John are supposed to meet in hell some time soon. Maybe some readers are old enough to remember seeing Hanoi john on TV news in France with the NVA. Also they may remember seeing his report before congress which he now admits to being a lie. Kerry is a real POS.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59559-2003May30?language=printer
Best part is at end of story:
A close associate hints: There’s a secret compartment in Kerry’s briefcase. He carries the black attache everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.
“Who told you?” he demanded as he reached inside. “My friends don’t know about this.”
The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.
“My good luck hat,” Kerry said, happy to see it. “Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia.”
Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn’t complex after all; it was Kerry.
He smiled and aimed his finger: “Pow.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59559-2003May30?language=printer
Bravo sierra! The over-under on the number of times his friends have endured that tall tale is 3,000.
We were the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary for the ungrateful. I was there and it still pisses me off that we wasted so many lives for nothing.
Of course! :-)
...and I just discovered there's even MORE here and here...and another great comment...
Did you or anyone else present think to ask why someone as bright and verbally facile as the senator, and as assiduously self-promoting, who has spent a political lifetime cultivating a dossier of himself as a Vietnam War ‘‘hero,’’ was caught off guard and reduced to mute impotence by a frontal assault by fellow servicemen against what purported to be the strongest feature of his resume?...
Let me suggest an answer...The senator knew deep down that over 150 of his fellow officers and servicemen had the goods on him, and try as he might, he had no credible answer to their charges. Guile stands mute in the face of truth.
- FRANK L. McNAMARA, Jr., Esq., Bolton
lol it looks like a bunch of freepers have found that message board
Actually considerably more exclusive than a "message board" boxer. It's more like a "Letter's To The Editor" department or "LTTE", traditionally subject to editorial review and selection for publishing.
I don't mind saying I like their "selections" ;-)
I'll tell you what pisses me off. Veterans' Day is a holiday for the State Department, politicos, teachers and some corporate types.
The percentage of veterans in those groups probably doesn't exceed 1.
I am in favor of abolishing the day off for Veterans' Day unless you can produce a DD-214 that says you have an honorable discharge.
Maybe we should all write to Timothy P. Murry, Lt. Governor, Massachusetts, to tell us just what was in John Kerry’s military records (including his discharge) and ask where we might find our OWN copies of everything.
I’m for giving government employees Veteran’s Day off. But NOT giving them the day AFTER Veteran’s Day off.
No, Cambodia.
Christmas Day.
John F. Kerry is a WAR CRIMINAL. Just ask him.
as would I if I didn’t use the lanuage I did.
Kerry also told his Cambodian myth in a speech on the Senate floor.
[In an Oct. 14, 1979, letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, Kerry wrote: “I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.” (Nixon was not even sworn into office yet.)
[Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts, also talked about his experience during a speech on the Senate floor on March 27, 1986.
[”I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia,” Kerry said.]
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,128561,00.html
What really, really pisses me off is that I’m working today and the draft dodgers are all home stuffing Hillary fund raiser envelopes.
My point exactly.
For that matter, why do they even have jobs?
There is job protection in government officework to be sure but my point is that it was perfectly possible for the government workers to commemorate Veterans’ Day on Sunday along with the rest of the nation. This was just a slack day for them.
Again I ask, what public memorial was held by government workers today to remember the veterans of our nation’s wars?
Give the veterans the day off and let the rest of society work for them for a change.
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