I'm 34. I know. My uncle did three tours in 'Nam. Took 3 units over. Never lost a single man. And they did front line combat. My uncle came back after the first tour to a hero's welcome as rightly deserved. He said he could handle the death and destruction. The second tour, he went over, and at one point, during a rough fight, he ended up pulling the trigger on an enemy at nearly point blank range and had the guy die on top of him. He said occasionally, he had a memory of that show up, but for the most part, his only haunting part of that was that he occasionally dreamed that it was him instead of the bad guy. His third tour, John Kerry got up and lied before Congress. When he returned, he was spit on. He was called a baby killer. When that happened, and Kerry's betrayal of the soldiers over there, he snapped. He woke up at nights screaming "WE DIDN'T DO IT!" I talked to him at one point. He picked up a paper and was reading some stuff and slammed down the paper and started cursing. I didn't know what happened. He was cursing about "that S.O.B. should have been SHOT, not elected." He ran to his room and pulled out his gun collection and started talking about going to Washington. I didn't know who he was talking about. I was scared. His wife calmed him down and he sat me down and talked to me about John Kerry. Told me about the betrayal. How we should all know that Kerry was the monster, not them.
My uncle died 10 years ago of many complications. But, for the most part, I will always blame John Kerry and the "anti-war" (read anti-freedom/anti-US) protestors. Had these traitors not done what they did, my uncle would have come home from the Marines whole. Instead, he came home and sunk into a deep depression. Employers wouldn't hire his buddies, and he stayed in as a DI at Paris Island so that he could have a job. Sometimes he had to stay on base because the protestors were so virulent.
Can someone tell me WHY that traitor believes that he could possibly be the commander-in-chief. He deserves the firing squad for what he did to my uncle and every other soldier out there. Not President.
Paul
You should make this a separate post, IMHO. It will be lost at the end of this thread.