[stoney]

Travis, that sort of thing was common, but still only 2 of us received a bronze star. Nothing higher. You can imagine how it pisses me off that Kerry received the SS for what amounts to what should have been a court martial offense.

I've lifted the names of lost brothers off the wall and keep them beside my bed so I see them each morning when I wake up. It galls my ass that their bravery will be lost once me a few others are gone, but Kerry will receive raving accolades for his 'bravery' for years to come.

[Travis McGee]

The bravery of the Brown Water Navy PBR boatmen will never be lost, as long as we frogmen remember the stories told by our VN era SEALs.

I'm sure it must burn you though, watching how this phoney arranged his own bogus Silver Star, while PBR boatmen drove straight into ambushes to extract SEALs, (among other duties) as a matter of routine heroism. I know it would burn me.

[oyez]

I can't recall a Silver Star awarded for hauling ass other than for Kerry.

[river rat]

"It galls my ass that their bravery will be lost once me a few others are gone...."

Let me assure you, that is NOT the case..

The men whose actions led to their ETERNAL recognition upon that wall, will never be forgotten.

One need only visit that hollowed place in the quiet of predawn, place his hands against the cold stone - and call out to his lost brothers..

They are still there, they are now ageless and they are there to see to it that America never forgets them or ever again betray her warriors as she did during that ugly period..

Just as you still see your brothers in your mind's eye and in your night terrors --- so will America..

Semper Fi