John Kerry: The mission I found in Vietnam

Intl Herald Tribune/New York Times ^ | 3-3-04 | John Kerry

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ah hah!

Found it at last.

In his words, "Then, on the afternoon of Feb. 26, when we had left Midway Island, the reality of Vietnam hit me right between the eyes....

Soon after, off Vietnam.... (So the GRIDLEY hadn't even gotten to 'Nam at the end of February!)....

After a few months of search and rescue work in the Gulf of Tonkin ... We docked early the next morning - June 6, 1968 (in Long Beach, CA).

So, the ENTIRE TIME his first tour in Vietnam was AT MOST 90 days: March, April, May of '67. Then, after 90 days of air-conditioned comfort off the coast, they left Tonkin (at the end of May) and had already returned to California by the first week in June.

[Balata]

LOL! Thanks nopardons. You must have been very brave back then. I'm glad you're on our side. :) I spent time on a major university campus after I got back and it got very ugly.

I can't believe anyone who has ever been connected to or supported the military would ever vote for Kerry after what the RAT's did to the absent tee ballots in Florida.

[Balata]

Good catch. The building of a legend war hero in air conditioned comfort.

[RedMonqey]

"John Kerry served in Vietnam???? REALLY????? I did not know that, he really should talk about that experience some time."


Yep. And in the FOUR MONTHS of HELL he spent there, he got a couple of scratches that he will PAINFULLY bear the rest of his life.

I hope he can bear the terrible burden of his war wounds. Such disabilities and the horrible nightmares he must endure every night.
Hopefully he can OVERCOME this make something out of his war weary life.

[nopardons]

I was brave and a bit reckless. Here I was, about the same age or younger, than the protesters, dressed in nylons,heels,a dress,wearing my flag pin, makeup, and my hair done, fighting back the scum of the earth;which was exactly what they looked and smelled like.I'd still do exactly the same today,if I have to!

No, THANK YOU for serving.

I can't believe that there are vets, or family members of vets,who are not still outraged by Kerry and the rest,to this day. And that includes today's military and the 2000 absentee ballots too.

I may no longer be young, but I'm still more than a match for any of those sniveling,aging antiwar morons.

[RaceBannon]

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USS Gridley 1980, they were with us on Float off Iran then.

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[RippleFire]

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[Chapita]

It is of special interest to read the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero regarding the danger of internal subversion. In a speech to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust, Cicero said:

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious.But it cannot survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city.

But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."