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Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold
? e-mailed from STRATCOM (Offutt Air Force Base) | 9-1-04 | Barbara Stock

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!


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Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 10:55 PM Subject: Revenge

This explains vividly why us vets are so against Kerry and the ambulance chaser and are working for their defeat.

Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold By Barbara Stock September 1, 2004

Over 30 years ago they put away their medals and their uniforms. They buried their anger and bitterness and moved on with their lives--and they waited.

Revisionists are trying to change history, claiming the returning Viet Nam veterans didn't suffer all that much when they returned home. All that talk of being labeled animals has been exaggerated over the years. But the veterans know better. They were there.

On the radio last week, one man related that he had unpacked the uniform that he wore home from Viet Nam all those years ago. It had not seen the light of day for over 30 years. He showed it to his children and grandchildren and, for the first time, spoke of the day that he returned home from war and was spat on, cursed at, and literally had to run a gauntlet of protesters who threw human waste and rotten fruit on him and his fellow vets. With the words "baby killers" ringing in his ears he was warned by laughing policemen not to retaliate or he would be arrested. So he ran. The able-bodied helped the wounded as they do on any battlefield because those on crutches or in wheelchairs were not spared the profanity and bags full of feces that were thrown at them by the raging anti-war protesters.

This now middle-aged vet went on to tell his family that he had hid in thebathroom at the airport for over two hours, bewildered and afraid. He wondered if he had landed in some foreign land where Americans were hated. Finally, he cleaned up the uniform he was still proud to wear as best he could and made his way to his plane, where he suffered more insults from the passengers. When he got home, he packed up his medals and his dirty uniform, just as it was, and he knew that one day, he would take it out again and he would have his say. That day has come.

One POW stated that he had never put a face to the name until he heard the words "Genghis Khan" pronounced only as John Kerry does and suffered his first flashback to the time he was being tormented by Kerry's words in a North Vietnamese prison camp.

They buried their anger and the bitterness --and they waited. Most of them didn't know who or what would be the signal to make their move, but they knew they would recognize it when it happened.

On July 29, 2004, it happened. John Forbes Kerry came to the podium at the Democratic Convention and uttered three words that made many Viet Nam vets skin crawl: "Reporting for Duty!" At last the time had come for these long-suffering veterans.

The past was staring back at these wrongly disgraced vets from their television sets. The face it bore was that of John Kerry, the man who had shredded their honor without a thought and climbed over the bodies of their fallen friends to launch a political career. Kerry had stripped them of their dignity the day he sat before Congress in his fatigues and portrayed them as "baby killers" and "murderers." Kerry did the unspeakable. He had publicly turned on his fellow vets while they were still in harm's way and American prisoners were still in the hands of the enemy. Kerry accused them all of being out-of-control animals, killing, raping, and pillaging Viet Nam at will. The anti-war movement--the protesters--had their hero and he was a Viet Nam War veteran, an officer, a medal winner, a wounded warrior: John Forbes Kerry.

Many Viet Nam vets buried the memories of their less-than-welcome homecoming, and John Kerry moved off the national scene. The feelings of betrayal had faded, but they were never resolved. The unprecedented injustice inflicted on the Viet Nam vets has always lain just under the surface, waiting for a chance to be uncovered. The war had stolen their youth and innocence and John Kerry stole their dignity and rightful place of honor in history.

Like an unlanced boil, the anger festered but there was nothing that could ease the pain. These vets didn't ask for "forgiveness" because they had done nothing wrong in serving their country. They never asked to be treated as heroes, just good soldiers. All they have ever wanted was the respect due all the men and women who have worn the uniform of this country. Being allowed to march in a few parades wasn't enough. A long over-due memorial was not enough. The Viet Nam Veterans moveable wall only brought back the suffering as they searched for the names of their fallen friends whose memory had been defiled and disgraced by people who considered them rampaging killers instead of men who died with honor for their country.

Now before them stands this man who would be president--this man who holds his service in Viet Nam up as a badge of honor now that it suits his purposes. This man Kerry brags about his medals and his tiny wounds and demands the respect they were denied, yet he offers no apologies for what he did to them. "I will be a great leader!" Kerry proclaims, because of his brief and self-proclaimed valiant service while wearing a uniform--the very same uniform that they wore and were spat upon because of it.

All across America, soiled uniforms and memories of being shamed and humiliated have resurfaced and Vietnam vets demand their rightful place in history. John Kerry seems bewildered by the reaction of his "fellow vets." He has become defensive and angry because now his service and honor are being questioned. Kerry seems oblivious to the pain he caused three decades ago when he stole all honor and dignity from those same "fellow vets" for personal gain. Now he wants to use them again, for the same reason.

All across America, Viet Nam vets are smiling. At last, perhaps they can bury their demons. These angry vets are demanding that this man who sentenced them to being shunned as criminals, tell the world that he was wrong and that he is sorry for what he did to them. Kerry must admit that he lied about them.

For many, it would still not be enough. Satisfaction and hopefully peace will come when Viet Nam vets see and hear John F. Kerry give his concession speech the night of November 2, 2004 with the knowledge that it was their votes that helped defeat him. There are approximately 2.5 million VietNam veterans in America and they have not forgotten.

Kerry denied them their rightful place as heroes and they will deny him his dream of the presidency. Angry Viet Nam veterans, silent for so long, will finally have their say. Payment in full will be delivered to John Kerry on November 2, 2004.

Revenge is indeed a dish best served cold.

1 posted on 09/13/2004 5:13:57 PM PDT by Linda Sandoval
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2 posted on 09/13/2004 5:16:22 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Linda Sandoval

bttt-


3 posted on 09/13/2004 5:16:22 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: Linda Sandoval

I've heard some vets call into Rush and Laura Ingraham and other radio shows.

Their pain, 30 years later, is evident and difficult to listen to. My hope is that they get the full attention their stories deserve and that Americans can come to grips with how Old Media and Kerry swayed a nation and just how deeply the propoganda ran is fully understood. Never again.

Godspeed to our soldiers and veterans.


4 posted on 09/13/2004 5:16:41 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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keep up the pressure please....... i am one of the vets ......


5 posted on 09/13/2004 5:19:50 PM PDT by Gibtx (focus.........)
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To: Linda Sandoval
Excellent letter. Says it all.

God bless America and our Vets!

FMCDH(BITS)

6 posted on 09/13/2004 5:21:38 PM PDT by nothingnew (KERRY: "If at first you don't deceive, lie, lie again!")
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To: Darth Reagan

ping. great read.


7 posted on 09/13/2004 5:22:30 PM PDT by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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To: TomServo; Linda Sandoval
Hi Tom...I'm not on 24/7 and this is the first I've seen of this. Take a break for awhile.

FMCDH(BITS)

8 posted on 09/13/2004 5:23:48 PM PDT by nothingnew (KERRY: "If at first you don't deceive, lie, lie again!")
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To: Gibtx

Allow me to salute you, sir, and say, "Job well done. Welcome Home!"


9 posted on 09/13/2004 5:24:13 PM PDT by MarDav (,)
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To: Linda Sandoval

The peaceniks who tormented our guys will have to live with that dishonor for the rest of their lives. Fortunately for them, they don't have the intellect to realize just how low they are.


10 posted on 09/13/2004 5:24:26 PM PDT by Marauder (Show me a liberal and I'll show you a sick individual.)
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To: Linda Sandoval
Now before them stands this man who would be president--this man who holds his service in Viet Nam up as a badge of honor now that it suits his purposes. This man Kerry brags about his medals and his tiny wounds and demands the respect they were denied, yet he offers no apologies for what he did to them. "I will be a great leader!" Kerry proclaims, because of his brief and self-proclaimed valiant service while wearing a uniform--the very same uniform that they wore and were spat upon because of it.

And this ONE paragraph illustrates EVERY reason why Kerry should never be allowed to become President.

11 posted on 09/13/2004 5:25:59 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: Indie

Kerry is simply reprehensible.


12 posted on 09/13/2004 5:26:50 PM PDT by MarDav (,)
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To: Linda Sandoval

Payback IS a B*tch.

John Kerry forgot about the vig.


13 posted on 09/13/2004 5:28:20 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Linda Sandoval
From American Spectator - Check out this along the same vein:
Vietnam the final bloody battle
DKK
14 posted on 09/13/2004 5:28:45 PM PDT by LifeTrek (<-- Uses Times New Roman just like 60 minutes! (http://lifetrek.blogspot.com))
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To: nothingnew
I'm not on 24/7 and this is the first I've seen of this. Take a break for awhile.

DITTO...a great read, especially for those of us that didn't catch it the first 2 times :)

15 posted on 09/13/2004 5:30:01 PM PDT by evad
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To: Linda Sandoval

Vets should organize and pay Kerry the same treatment. Follow him around the country from event to event like he's his old pals The Grateful Dead. Bring lots of rubber gloves and nose plugs.


16 posted on 09/13/2004 5:30:18 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: Linda Sandoval

bump


17 posted on 09/13/2004 5:33:32 PM PDT by aberaussie
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To: evad
For the first time since he returned from Vietnam John Kerry has the opportunity to do something good for his country – not by being the supposed “loyal” opposition (because he fails on the loyal part of that statement) but by being defeated in a resounding repudiation of the anti-Americanism he stands for and has demonstrated since that fateful day in 1971 when he repeated lies before the Senate. In doing so America has the opportunity to return America to its rightful stance in the world as the best opportunity for peace and all that is good in this world.
18 posted on 09/13/2004 5:34:53 PM PDT by LifeTrek (<-- Uses Times New Roman just like 60 minutes! (http://lifetrek.blogspot.com))
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To: TomServo

That's OK. I hope it's posted all night.


19 posted on 09/13/2004 5:37:43 PM PDT by Tribune7
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We generally let duplicates go if they are 5-6 hours apart or more, but it is considered old news by then, and will be removed from breaking news.

18 posted on 03/19/2003 8:39:01 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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20 posted on 09/13/2004 5:39:38 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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