Posted on 09/13/2004 5:13:53 PM PDT by Linda Sandoval
To my husband who was spit on while holding our 3 year old son, just because he was in uniform. Payback is sweet!
I feel that the treatment that I received, and have lived with for the past 33 years, was due to John Kerry and his lies. If I could get within 10 feet of John Kerry I would spit in his face and I don't care what the consequences would be.
John Kerry does not have the moral integrity, honesty, or judgment to be the Commander-In-Chief of the world’s most powerful military. John Kerry IS, unfit for command.
Vietnam Veteran
Mekong Delta 1970-1971
For many, it would still not be enough.
It wouldn't be enough. It will be enough when Kerry starts over (from scratch) rather than continue the dishonorable life he built for himself on his foundation of lies about others.
It might be a start.
I am a Vietnam era vet, although I was never in Vietnam. I never had to run a gauntlet upon my return from the other side of the world, although I did hear a comment or two about the evils of the military. The point is, I don't have the first hand experience of the shameful treatment Kerry-types perpetrated, but I do specifically recall the "Winter Soldier" bilge.
The surface damage he could clean, but what was done inside him could not be. He was proud of his service, and the look in his eye when I went into the Air Force was beyond words....and now, his voice seethes with a loathing I have never heard before. When he says "Kerry," there's a venom there....a tone that says "You're in my gunsights, John F....just like those NVA trucks were in 1969 and 1970, and the 'Stinger' is gonna nail you!"
"Deny Them The Dark" was my Dad's unit's old motto....and Kerry was hoping the darkness of ignorance would get him into office the way the dark helped the NVA get into South Vietnam. The honorable Vietnam Veterans have gone back into combat. They are denying that darkness to Kerry. My Dad is flying one more mission. Before, it was to try to save people they'd never met from being enslaved to a tyrannical government. Now, it's to save their country from a traitor.
If they need me, a veteran of the Cold War, I'll be with them.....and proud to stand by the men who showed those of us who served later what honor and courage truly were. I'm ready to fly my mission against Kerry. I could ask to be on no better crew than with the Veterans of Vietnam.
I have only recently read about Vietnam vets being abused such as is described in this article.
I got out of the military in 1966, ( maybe too early to suffer abuse, ) and by the time the war was over I was pretty much totally disinterested in politics or reading the news.
I didn't hear about any abuse during that time. However, I have to assume that this kind of abuse took place in California and other left-wing areas.
I think I can say with confidence that if anything like this had occurred in the New Orleans area the perpetrators would have been dealt with by the locals. Disrespect of the military would not have been tolerated.
I have also wondered if all of this abuse was somehow displaced anger over having "lost the war," even though the "loss" of the war was a total falsehood pushed forth by the left-wing press.
God bless you!
You don't know how it's broken my heart to listen to some of those phone calls. What sKerry did to our vets should never be forgiven.
Tell all your friends and copy and paste articles from free republic (excluding comments!) and put in e-mails to your friends.
Even if we just change a few votes, it's a contribution to our veterans.
Kerry is so out of it that he STILL just doesn't get it. He is still puzzling over why any vet, family or patriot would be upset with him. He doesn't have the capacity to understand.....and he wants to be president?
Amen, nothingnew! Don't these "posting police" remind you of the hallway monitors we had in elementary school? I've read MANY posts over the years that were posted multiple times, but I would've never seen them otherwise.
And I'm glad I read THIS POST, because it was very touching!
In case you hadn't seen this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1194668/posts?page=81,20
From last month.
This is a tremendous, heart-wrenching read.
It should be circulated widely.
I was young during this time - graduated HS in '76. I remember the war because it was on the nightly news although I didn't understand much about it.
I sure do understand it now.
For what it's worth, please accept my sincere, heartfelt, grateful Welcome Home to all Vietnam Vets.
Thanks for posting this for those of us who missed it before. The thread police might not be happy about it, but I am.
But was he with thousands of other Vets? Did he throw poop?
Is it true that there is a museum in Hanoi with a picture of Kerry in it?
An article like this should be posted at least 4 times a day until 02 November. Some folks can only get on FR for any given hour.
I was too young to serve in 'Nam, but not too young to be horrified by the treatment our veterans got.
Though I would vote for Bush anyway, I feel a sense of pride that my vote will also count as support for the veterans. Also proud that it will be a spit in the face of not only Kerry, but also all the dirtballs who participated in such shameful actions.
-Always proud of our veterans. Thanks for the freedom!
Flareships?
Thank you so much for posting this, I had not seen it before.</P>My heart breaks for what was done to these vets and I pray that our country finds some way to make it up to them. I am only 30, so I missed the whole war, but I want so desperatly to make it right for those men and women.
Great line.
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