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To: All; WOSG; Landru; sultan88; jla; FBD; MeekOneGOP; BOBTHENAILER; Constitution Day; Wolverine
If enough people call them with interest, they might actually do a non-editorial news story on the subject. They are pretty good (and owned by NewsCorp).
61 posted on 02/14/2004 11:29:50 AM PST by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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To: jmstein7
Done....I even included el rushbo.

Will call now.

71 posted on 02/14/2004 12:06:04 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: jmstein7; All
From:
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml

{SNIP}
“…In the distance, an elderly man was tending his water buffalo -- and serving as human cover for a dozen Viet Cong manning a machine-gun nest.

"Open fire; let's take 'em," Kerry ordered, according to his second-in-command, James Wasser of Illinois. Wasser blasted away with his M-60, hitting the old man, who slumped into the water, presumably dead. With a clear path to the enemy, the fusillade from Kerry's Navy boat, backed by a pair of other small vessels, silenced the machine-gun nest.

When it was over, the Viet Cong were dead, wounded, or on the run. A civilian apparently was killed, and two South Vietnamese allies who had alerted Kerry's crew to the enemy were either wounded or killed….”

“…Kerry initially hoped to continue his service at a relatively safe distance from most fighting, securing an assignment as "swift boat" skipper. While the 50-foot swift boats cruised the Vietnamese coast a little closer to the action than the Gridley had come, they were still considered relatively safe.

"I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."…”


85 posted on 02/14/2004 12:35:45 PM PST by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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