Posted on 02/17/2004 3:04:52 PM PST by dennisw
Letter Of The Week TIRED OF HEARING KERRY CALLED A 'HERO' Thank you for your article, Kerry's post-battlefield conversion is pathetic.
I spent three tours in Vietnam with the 5th Special Forces (Airborne) with side trips to Laos and Cambodia. I lost twenty-three of my friends during the war. That is the price you pay for the profession we followed.
However, the America public and a lot of Vietnam Veterans are being taken in by John Kerry's service in Vietnam. If you read about the award of his three Purple Hearts, they were nothing but scratches. If my Team Medic would have put me in for a Purple Heart every time I was dinged, I would have a chest full of them also, I wouldn't been able to face my fellow Team Mates. He used those three awards to get out of further combat. Also, the award of his Silver Star is rather dubious. It was up-graded from a Bronze Star, which by the way, I have three of them. During the Anti-war protest, the Vietnam Veterans threw their medals on the steps in Washington. When Kerry's were seen displayed in his office, someone asked him, didn't you throw those away during the protest? His reply, the ones I threw were symbolic.
I'm sorry that I got on a roll. I'm just tired of hearing what a "hero" Kerry claims to be. I would like to see that picture of him with the VC Flag behind him when he was telling everyone what evil things we done in Vietnam displayed more often.
Sgt. Major Edward F. Komac USA Retired
We (Viet Nam vets) put up with that crap so much that many of my brothers denied that they had been there or just didn't talk about it with anyone, not even wives, fathers or mothers. I was one of the ones that wouldn't deny, but I wouldn't talk about it much either. I would always stand up and defend my position against the scum that protested the war, other than that, I left it alone mostly.
Fonda, Kerry, commie scum, and the ignorant lefties did this to us. Thank you, John F'in Kerry and that NVA Ho Fonda. You both made my life after Viet Nam a living hell.
I have metals too, and I didn't throw them away. They are at the bottom a big steamer trunk and haven't seen the light of day for many, many years (and that's where they will stay until I'm ready to take them out). The last time they were out was when I was a junior in college (on the GI bill, of course). I was asked by the local VFW chapter in Bloomington, Indiana (Indiana University), where I was a member, to be in an honor guard (they needed vets that had dress blues, and I had them). The dress blue uniform required, at that time, that the full metal (not the ribbon) be worn. As I was getting dressed, in the dorm, for the ceremonies later, some of my fellow residents (students) came into my room to see my dress. I had gotten a "high and tight" haircut because it was appropriate for the uniform. They teased and taunted me but I ignored them. One of the other students called them off. He looked at my chest, then he looked at me and said, "Wow, that's for real"! I shook my head. He went on to explain to the other 'kids' what he had just seen. I don't have an MH, but I do have something that I think I never deserved. We'll just leave it at that. I never got much crap after that. But, then again, I don't lean on my metal to make me a man. It seems that the french looking John F'in Kerry NOW needs that Silver Star to make him president.
Personally, I'd like to take that metal of his and shove it up his rust pickin' ass.....sideways (that's hell on the 'roids). A Ranger could do that to a 'duck' with one hand tied behind his back. (If it quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it must be sailor! It's only a service joke, don't you Nav boys flame me too hard cause this old Ranger just loves the way you shoot them great ol' big guns on them boats you got and fly them fancy airplanes. I expect at least one flame on that one). Men that served in Viet Nam are now between the ages of 50 and 60 (I'm 56). That's not many votes, but it IS many pissed off voices.
Kerry is a disgrace to the names carved on THAT wall, and he is a disgrace to me, and my band of brothers, and every vet that served. Kerry is the communist that we fought against in Viet Nam, he became the enemy that he fought against, that's a shame. If he didn't have the strength to stand and deliver for his country, I don't want him within 200 miles of the White House. If you fight for this country and do it with honor don't you dare, ever quit. As far as I'm concerned, he (the very french looking John F'in Kerry) deserted to the communist left and was a DIRECT cause for the loss of the war in Viet Nam. If he can do this, with not even a twitch of conscience, he will betray the security of the country in a Boston minute. You and I be damned!
Now the commies say that GW didn't serve in Nam, he avoided the Nam by joining the National Guard as a FIGHTER PILOT. Well, what about those last 3 years he has served as the Commander in Chief. Do they think that this job is easy? Can you imagine the nights that this good man has spent on his knees, praying that he is doing the right thing. Can you imagine the President's bad dreams. None of us can, or ever will know what pain and trouble this man carries in his heart. In his head he knows what he has to do, but that doesn't make it any easier for the 'man at the top'.
The past really doesn't count. We have a war that will kill all of us, if we lose, and our President means to win this war.
This old vet would go again, and I want to, for this President. He's no phony, Kerry is a backstabbing, ketchup sucking, low down, sneaking, rotten bastard. I won't fight for that douche-bag. What Kerry wants is a bunch of wimps to take orders from some UN 'General'. It is NOT for me. I take orders from AMERICANS, and AMERICANS ONLY.
So were the protesters correct in spitting on the vets that came home alive?
When I saw that photograph on Rush's website, and having been to The Wall twice in my life, and after hearing the stirring and emotional story from a Vietnam Veteran who called into Rush's program today, I was inspired to set forth a challenge to John Kerry to really think twice about the wounds he opened up, that makes him unworthy to occupy the office of President Of The United States, based simply on his 16 year Senate voting record, and his "service" to the anti-war movement 33 years ago.
I cannot however, look at Senator Kerry in the same regard as those who do not brag about medals or ribbons or who denigrate the service of those who proudly served without having to brag about it. Senator Kerry is a small man who feels the need to stand on the backs of those like my Uncle and Grandfather and countless other bona fide heroes just to look heroic. Military service runs deep and wide in my family, and I'm proud of each and every one of them. Senator Kerry touched a nerve with me when he denigrated Bush's honorable service in the ANG. I'm unable to join the military for physical reasons, but nothing angers me more than the traitorous past that Senator Kerry tries to keep buried from the American public.
Mr. Kerry is a piece of crud, and I will work my old, combat vet, butt off to defeat this lowlife.
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