Posted on 08/10/2004 10:21:42 PM PDT by The Bandit
My prayers are with you. And your Dad as well.
The festering wound was laid open raw by the likes of Jane Fonda, magget infested hippies, the hate for the military that spewed forth from the press of that time, and opputurnists seeking personal gain such as Kerry.
The shame of it was misplaced from the vileness of the above mentioned to the noble service of our troops.
I remember being pelted by tomatoes and eggs upon arriving home at SEA-TAC in 69.
Dear Smoothsailing ,
thank you for your service, may God bless you, and your family.
Please look closely at the picture . . .
The crewmember on the left (without a shirt) has the sun hitting his face from the left and the shadow cast is to the right.
John Kerry (on the right) has the sun hitting his face from the right and the shadow cast to the left.
Whatdya know! Gee talk about two faced! They had two suns then!
Holy Moly, the shadows don't match!
The fuzzy (crane ? machine gun? bracket?) object in the middle is warped/twisted/moving) but the guy "leaning" on it is fixed - not moving.No, if you load the picture into a graphic editor & blow it up to 2x, it becomes obvious that it's a blue or gray tarp covering something - maybe a machine gun.
The object could not have been bumped, but the water is visible "though it" on one side, and is covered on Kerry's side!
I enlarged this, by increasing it's resolution from 70 to 350.
Click here for an even larger one.
Also the cable railing that you can see in back of them, that should be passing behind the machine gun, does not line up. It's just missing for a space, but the ends are not where they should, if it were just missing a piece, or is that just the way that the swift boats were set up to make way for the machine gun fire?
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You da man Bandit... Another round of emails going out now. The press may never print this stuff, but it will be shown underground to freedom truth loving Americans.
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NO ONE? Wow
I haven't been able to get the book yet so maybe my questions are redundant.
Was there actually a kid shot?
Was he killed or wounded?
Did someone hear a shot & they found Kerry near:
1. Wounded boy
2. Dead Body
Is this the only specific instance Kerry wounded/killed someone.
No, it's a hate crime
Maybe if the sun is directly above them the shadows depend on minor adjustments such as a head tilt. Tilt the head a few degrees the other way and the shadow changes sides.
I'm no expert on shadows though.
Can anyone back this up as being in the Brinkley book? If someone has the book and would double check to verify, much appreciated.
I'm so sorry, Chad. Time to end this war and put a stop to those who revive it for political reasons.
"As for the original post....will have to digest the info.
They were pictured together....hard to imagine them not serving together due to this fact. Why would they "stage" a picture?"
While attending a Navy electronics school, I and a friend who was in a class ahead of mine in the same school used to socialize with a sailor who was stationed on a tugboat in the harbor. I don't have any pictures of us together but I remember some being taken by a young woman who went on a couple of dates with one of the other two guys, there may be other pictures that I don't recall. Anyone seeing these pictures now could easily conclude that we were stationed together. We were even referred to sometimes as "The Three Musketeers". Our only real connection was that we were all three from the Carolinas.
"The sun is behind the picture taker in that photo. All the subjects are looking into the sun, so the shadows are appropriate."
I sho' ain't no expert, okay? But I just don't understand how this can be right, when I look at the tousle haired blond guy I clearly see his shadow on his own left shoulder and chest, when I look at the man who appears to be Alston standing behind the blond his head seems to be tilted at about the same angle and yet I see no shadow. Why don't I see his shadow on the bare right shoulder of the guy next to him on the left?
Worry away if you want to waste your energy.
Bush's approval ratings topped 50%.
If you don't know what that means (even without a convention bounce), then you should do some research.
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