Posted on 05/10/2021 8:22:11 AM PDT by george76
They were polishing the costume jewelry that decorated their collars and shoulders.
Think of him as the Deserter.
I saw him on tv explaining how one of his hearts was the result of his throwing a grenade into a sampan.
A frag from it hit his arm.
That is classic self-wounding and grunts who did it were nailed to the cross.
The Navy required 3 purple hearts for a combat exemption, and the exemption had to be authorized.
Not only did Kerry commit the crime of self-wounding, he left his command without approval of his 3 heart exemption - desertion in time of war.
“Not only did Kerry commit the crime of self-wounding, he left his command without approval of his 3 heart exemption - desertion in time of war.”
How did he get away with that?
A friend of mine got 3 hearts and applied for exemption.
They gave him a ration of shinola and put him in casual while he waited for approval and got the shinola kicked out of him by NCOs who considered him a coward.
Kerry got his magic hearts, applied for exemption, then hopped a military flight back to the states.
He got away with it because he was a pampered Ivy League POS Massachusetts democrat sweetheart of Ted Kennedy.
One grunt I knew injured himself accidentally and when he got out of the hospital they added bad time to his tour and sent him back to the bush.
Amen
And justice for that poor woman..
“One grunt I knew injured himself accidentally and when he got out of the hospital they added bad time to his tour and sent him back to the bush.”
That’s f’d up, but in the final analysis, I blame the leftards for destroying morale.
The corps isn’t like that today.
I hope not.
A few months of sleeping in mud and eating canned shit will tempt the best men.
Tolerate any kind of malingering and you won’t just have soaring casualty rates - you won’t have an army at all.
“A few months of sleeping in mud and eating canned shit will tempt the best men.”
I think the worst of it was that “mainstream society” tried their hardest to make any serviceman feel bad about himself.
Bastards had their knives out.
The bastards.
Remember them well with their endless “during the depression I walked 12 miles to school and back in a snowstorm every day” and “I killed 42 japs and germans with my bare hands on guadalcanal”.
Started a war in asia and sent their sons off to fight it.
Then after all their bs war talk they betrayed their own sons to the enemy.
Nobody betrayed them, but their sons who never came home and those who did, scarred and ruined in body and soul, were smeared with the tar brush of defeat.
Hell is too good for them.
“Started a war in asia and sent their sons off to fight it.”
Well, not really. The war had been going on for some time, and when the French were sickened by the constant casualties and decided to pull out, the South Vietnamese said to America, “If Ho Chi Minh has his way with us, there will be a terrible bloodbath followed by an oppressive, bloody tyranny. Will you help us?”
We are the good guys, so we tipped our white hat and said, “Yes, we will.”
We made many mistakes in our pursuit of the war in Vietnam. This is no surprise, given that our “leadership” was JFK and LBJ, two of history’s foulest scumbags. That notwithstanding, our intent was to save the people of South Vietnam from the murderous depredations of the communist monsters.
The American left, of course, wanted the communists to win, so they urged us to “cut and run,” leaving the south to their fate. Decent Americans deplored the notion of cutting and running, and elected RMN to achieve “peace with honor.”
This he did, to the everlasting frustration of the demonrat party and the rest of the forces of evil. Satan never sleeps, though, and he found a way to discredit RMN and betray the innocent Vietnamese people to the murderous rage of the communists. The bloodbath was so bad that even some on the left repented of their actions.
Before people rush to disgrace the sacrifice of the American fighting man in Vietnam, it is not true that nothing was gained.
For one thing, all other things being equal, resisting evil is generally the right thing to do.
For another, Russian analysts estimate that the expenditure of resources and internal squabbling over the war accelerated the fall of the Soviet Union by ten years.
Normal Americans can take pride in the courage and sacrifice of our fighting men in Vietnam. Leftists should find the nearest seacoast, wade into the surf, start swimming, and don’t come back.
I remember them hootin and hollerin at the news of Gulf of Tonkin - “we gonna teach them commies a lesson yeehaw”.
Pukes like Cronkite and the scum of congress blathering their support for the fight to preserve freedom.
The same scumbags who later had the guts to tell me “gee I’m sorry but I just cant support this war any longer snif snif”.
I wanted to spit in their filthy faces - greatest generation myass.
Despite his other faults LBJ was a good CinC - Nixon was a clusterfuk.
LBJ intervening in 65 prevented the VC from winning and was a gutsy thing to do. Nixon nearly brought the roof down on our heads the Rino numnuts.
We were in VN because of the SEATO treaty which provided advisors and logistical support before 1965.
The strategic hamlet program would have defeated the VC insurgency like it defeated the insurgency in Malaya - if the IDIOT Diem hadn’t placed his pal Albert Thao (a VC agent) in charge of the program.
Apologies to the OP for rambling will sit down now.
Like we voted for Biden? Yeah right.
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