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It might help the drought that so few flowers are left to water in Atlanta, so many having been thrown at Jane Fonda to celebrate her 70th birthday.The AJC predictably gave her glowing coverage, with only the mention that Fonda has to deal with criticism by Vietnam veterans. Here is one Vietnam veteran who is bothered far more by how the media portray her than by Fonda herself.Now that the threat of communism is gone, the Cold War stand against it is sometimes ridiculed, likened to looking for boogeymen under the bed. Fonda's own affinity for communism is brushed aside...

---------- When John Kerry testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 that American troops in Vietnam were ravaging the country with widespread atrocities, it was based on a pack of lies. I know, because I told some of those lies after Kerry coached me on what to say. I was wounded in 1969 and when well enough to walk and return to the US I was spit on, ridiculed and had feces thrown at my uniform. I was mad at my country for sending me to a war it was not committed to win and bitter at...

Kerry Lied Rally Logomachon booted from the rally, Makes young girl cry (Washington, D.C. 12 September) The rally was in North Senate Park, on the North side of Independence Ave. as it goes up Capitol Hill. The park is just opposite Union Station, where I got off the subway. I was four blocks from where I went to high school. As I walked into the rally, a man in a blazer (the only one I saw off the podium) came up and said hello. He had been an engineer attached to Special Forces in Danang and had retired as a...

6:00 PM Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Aquaturf Club, Mulberry Street, Plantsville, CT Vietnam Vets for the Truth, LLC (VVT) is hosting a fundraising dinner at the Aquaturf Club in Plantsville, Connecticut, on August 17th. Proceeds from the dinner will benefit VVT's "Kerry Lied... While Good Men Died" rally - an event being held on September 12th in Washington D.C. VVT represents the majority of Vietnam veterans who stand in opposition to John Kerrys bid for the White House and who deem him unfit to be Americas Commander-in-Chief. Earlier in the year, the group broke the Saigon Museum Photo story that...