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The 50th-anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War should be a time of reflection and redemption, when a grateful country pays a long-standing debt to veterans who nobly fought in the conflict but came home to scorn and spit. But if a Pentagon bureaucrat has his way, the Viet vets will be denied their rightful honors once again.... The proposed budget for the commemorations was $100 million, which was less than the amount spent on the World War II and Korean War commemoration efforts. For example, the 1984 commemoration of the Normandy landings alone cost $38 million.... Enter Michael L. Rhodes,...

“Since it’s generally accepted–but wrong–that Tet drove the American people against the Vietnam war, you have a class of commentators, and people in government too, who keep anticipating this kind of event–some grand event that will suddenly mark a sea change in the support of any military effort overseas, at which point people just turn against it,” says James S. Robbins, author of the new book "This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive."... To Robbins, the Vietnam narrative must be reclaimed from the “ruling class of hippies and leftists, who went from protests to the U.S. Senate in some...

The below was faxed to Pennsylvania's John Murtha by a disability retired Vietnam vet (me) who has noticed that the Viet Vets who have done REALLY WELL in politics since the Vietnam War are the ones who sucked up to the same liberalism which defeated the Vietnam War effort ... John Murtha, John Kerrey, Bob Kerry, John McCain, Max Cleland . . . and more lately, Marine Iraq veteran Paul Hackett from Ohio who called President Bush an "S.O.B." He'll be running for the Ohio Congress as a John Kerrey anti-war "hero," Lord unwilling. Fax sent in CAPS DEAR REPRESENTATIVE...

Dear Everyone, We were able just today to get the itinerary for Jane Fonda's book signing tour. We are encouraging all Vietnam Veterans and their family, as well as all concerned Americans, to protest her signings. This is Operation Street Corner, now used for another traitor, Jane Fonda. Watch the Operation Street Corner website for pictures and information about our protests (http://operationstreetcorner.com/). There is nothing posted yet, as we are getting the word out first to our email listservers. Thank you so much for your time and help! I will be sending out additional information about Jane soon. See Hanoi...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police said they arrested a man for spitting on Academy Award winning actress Jana Fonda during a book-signing stop in Kansas City Tuesday night.Fonda, 67, spoke at Unity Temple, in The Plaza shopping district, about her new book, "My Life So Far" and her new movie with Jennifer Lopez called "Monster-In-Law."At about 9 p.m., police said a man who had been waiting in line for about 90 minutes, passed a book to Fonda and then spit a large amount of tobacco juice into her face. Michael A. Smith Thy said the man then ran away and...

There is a large group of "walking dead" in our midst . . . and I cannot get them off my mind and heart. We ignored them once, and I pray we won't do it again. If this past presidential election did nothing more than bring to the fore a story that we've not heard . . . we cannot in good conscience ignore it. One, lone soldier, told his story several years ago, and we listened with "bated breath." But recently when the other side of the story was told, we slightly turned our heads and called it politics....

OCTOBER ELECTION SURPRISES! Guest opinion by Don Bendell We Americans are all members of one giant dysfunctional family. Are we the uninformed victims of an addict, our collective heads buried deep in the sandpit of denial? When we tire of the misery from the choking sands and darkness, and hit our bottom, we will yank our heads up into the bright light of reason and discernment. I pray that it happens today, before it is too late. I have been a grateful recovering alcoholic for almost 36 years, and married to a recovering alcoholic for over 23 years. Overcoming denial...

After a decade of research, Vietnam veteran B.G Burkett and investigative reporter Glenna Whitley came to a stunning conclusion: Virtually everything the American public “knows” about Vietnam is a myth. They present their case in the book “Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed if Its Heroes and Its History,” debunking everything from widespread drug use to the picture of “babykillers” who came home psychologically devastated, myths adopted for political purposes. Political cover for John Kerry is the reason the slander is being repeated this election year, and even updated for use against a new generation of troops. The...

It seems Sen. John Kerry made a strategic error in so strongly emphasizing his Vietnam service in his convention speech accepting the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

A website for the documentary "Stolen Honor" “Stolen Honor” investigates how John Kerry’s actions during the Vietnam era impacted the treatment of American soldiers and POWs. Using John Kerry’s own words, the documentary juxtaposes John Kerry’s actions with the words of veterans who were still in Vietnam when John Kerry was leading the anti-war movement. Currently in the final stages of production, Stolen Honor will be available for broadcast and on DVD and VHS video. In addition, you will be able to view excerpts from the program on this web site. “In other wars, captured Americans subjected to the hell...

A rally held today in Seoul, South Korea, by strong friends of the USA and strong opponents of brutal North Korea/Kim Jong-il. Joining were: defectors from communist North Korea, S. Korean conservatives, a German doctor who had worked in North Korea, S. Korean veterans of the Vietnam War, and others friends. They fastidiously burned the communist North Korean flag and sang in support of President Bush and a strong policy against tyrany. Enjoy.