Kerry Lied Rally in Washington, DC

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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 colonel.

As we were talking, two younger guys wearing green berets with civvies came over to say they liked my signs. They were from 3rd Group and had come up with a dozen others from North Carolina. As I moved farther into the rally, another man in a rally tee-shirt and beret--with 5th Group flash--introduced himself as Ted Sampley and complimented my sign.

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I wandered around in the bright sun, reading signs and taking some pictures. The crowds never came close to filling the grassy plaza of the park, but it got to be much bigger than shown here, taken at 1348 hours. Several people came up to say they liked my sign or to take a picture of it. The sun was bright in a hazy sky, a lot of people, especially women and their husbands, stayed in the shade.

There was a line at the rally information table, where signs, buttons, and gee-gaws were for sale. A lot of unofficial signs were on display, including one that answered the question, “How is John Kerry like a poodle?"
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[LOCHINVAR]

Viet Nam was nearly forty years ago. so a lot of columnnists
think it long ago history. A couple of years ago while in the break room a work, a young hippie type came in and asked
a veteran Marine what was it like killing children in Nam.
Before he could answer I got up and gave that idiot a very
big dresssing down.

But the point is, what Kerry reported to Congress is still going strong after all this time and will stick to all Viet Nam vets til they day they die.

Kerry's lies continues to this day, and he won't even take
responsibility for them.

[logomachon]

Way to go.

Can't say I've ever gotten harrassed for being a Vietnam vet. Even at the very anti-war campus of the U of MD, College Park, in the early '70s, I never had any trouble. Arguments, yes (I worked on the campus paper), but no baby-killer stuff.

One time in the early '80s at a church discussion group, a young guy made a remark to me about US soldiers in Vietnam "killing everybody". I deliberately lost it and told him to retract the statement or I would break his neck. He was struck speechless, and I was about to start breaking up the furniture with his head when my sister intervened. The guy gathered his wits and apologized.

Thanks again.