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It wasn't until I came on this forum that I learned that we WON the Tet Offensive!! As I said, in those days I was a young mother and there was no talk radio or internet, so all I had was the Today Show and the Nightly News and our local paper.

Just this year I told a friend of mine that we had won it, and she didn't believe it until she looked it up.

I hate the media as well as Kerry. I am beginning to think this is a test from God for our country.

The grotesque thing about this is how John F'ing al-Qerry is running as the "veterans' veteran," as he claimed yesterday while visiting my state:

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry promised to be a "veteran's veteran" Tuesday as the White House tried to sour his support among a key constituency by airing a commercial accusing him of rejecting funding for soldiers at war in Iraq.

Kerry warned an audience of veterans that President Bush has misled the country on everything from the war to the economy and had broken promises to veterans needing health care. From the Oval Office on Tuesday, Bush questioned Kerry's own truthfulness by calling for him to identify the world leaders Kerry has said would rather see him as president.

In his first visit to West Virginia since becoming the presumptive nominee, Kerry was seeking to define himself as a war hero. The state, with 203,000 veterans, or 15.4 percent of its adult population, is home to more veterans per capita than all but Alaska, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming. Although solidly Democratic in past elections, West Virginia sided with Bush instead of Al Gore in 2000. Its five electoral votes would be essential in another close election.

"Nothing is more important than telling the American people the truth about the economy, health care, and war and peace," Kerry told veterans in Huntington. "This administration has yet to level with the American people." ... full story

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This offends me greatly, as both my grandfather and father were West Virginians who served their country, in WWI and WWI, respectively, and were seriously wounded. West Virginia has a very high proportion of veterans to its population, and it is a slap in their faces that this fraud, this liar who falsely accused his brothers of unspeakable atrocities and then created obstacles to bringing home POWs, this pampered pet of a wealthy heiress, has the audacity to claim he's one of them.

Read about this thread from your ATRW post, and tracked it down. Thanks Jane.

I've known that the Tet offensive was not the failure usually depicted. Walter Cronkite is the culprit here with several accomplices, and the reason I detest him so much.