I'LL SAVE THE DAY
Posted on 05/31/2004 11:52:04 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Sen. John Kerry's record as an anti-war protester came back to haunt him on Memorial Day when he was confronted by a heckler as he tried to pay his respects to a soldier killed in the Vietnam War.
"How much money are you getting to betray our POWs?" an unidentified middle-aged woman shouted as Kerry visited the Vietnam Veterans memorial on the Washington Mall.
"Are you paying tribute to all the people you spat on, Senator Kerry?" she added.
The incident came as Kerry attempted to honor William Bronson, a Massachusetts native who was killed in Vietnam.
Kerry led the fight to have Bronson's name added to those already inscribed on the black granite wall, according to Reuters. "I'm glad we could finally get the appropriate thing done," the top Democrat told his mother, Barbara, who was there for the ceremony.
The heckling episode served to underscore the resentment many veterans still feel towards Kerry from his days as a leader with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, when he teamed up with anti-American actress Jane Fonda.
Ironically, though Kerry has made his service in Vietnam a centerpiece of his campaign and has continued to attack President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, veterans are shunning him, according to a poll released last week.
Though the CBS survey showed Kerry opening up an eight point lead over Bush overall, the poll's internal numbers show Kerry trailing badly among veterans, with only 41 percent supporting him while 54 percent back Bush.
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Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christians in Central Highlands
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/news/675016/posts
...all with Sen. McCAIN's support.
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A Freeper Vet goes to the Vietnam Wall
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/news/1019769/posts
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Thanks...I love to heckle that guy. Can't wait until the debate in Tempe later in the fall (not to mention the cooler weather.)
Why was there only one speaking up? There should have been hundreds.
You should send this url to FOX
They still refer to Hanoi Kerry as a highly decorated Viet Nam vet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675016/posts
FOX must count the medals that Hanoi Jane gave him.
Looks like Scott Peterson trial is the big news on FOX
Kerry: "I didn't spit on them, and then I did spit on them!"
I've been googling and I can't find any articles about Kerry trying to get this man's name on the wall ... just that it's the Pentegon who decides who's names are on the wall
It also seems that Sen Kerry was not one of the scheduled speakers for today
http://thevirtualwall.org/index.cfm?SectionID=345
THOUSANDS OF VETERANS & FAMILIES TO COMMEMORATE
MEMORIAL DAY AT THE WALL
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge to Speak
Ten Names To Be “Officially” Added to The Wall
Monday, May 31 at 1 PM / Live: www.USVets.tv
Washington, D.C. – Nearly 10,000 veterans and their families are expected to participate in the Annual Memorial Day Observance at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Monday, May 31 at 1 PM, sponsored by the Vietnam Memorial Fund and the National Park Service, announced Jan. C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Memorial Fund.
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, the first Office of Homeland Security Advisor in the history of the U.S., will deliver the keynote speech at the ceremony. Twice elected governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1995 to 2001, Secretary Ridge was drafted into the U.S. Army while in law school and served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning a Bronze Star for Valor. He was elected to Congress in 1982, the first enlisted Vietnam combat veteran to serve in the U.S. House, and was overwhelmingly re-elected six times.
Other speakers at the event will include Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington; James V. Kimsey, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Board Member and Founding CEO and Chairman Emeritus of America Online; Command Sergeant Major Cheryl M. Mathis; Gentry Davis, Deputy Regional Director of the National Park Services’ National Capital Region; Diane Carlson Evans, Founder and President of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation; and Jan Scruggs, Founder and President of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, will serve as Master of Ceremonies. The Memorial Day Observance will be broadcast via satellite and webcast live and archived on www.usvets.tv and the Memorial Fund’s website at www.vvmf.org.
New Names Added to The Wall
The names of ten servicemen, recently inscribed on The Wall, will become “official” at the Memorial Day Observance when they are read aloud. Family members representing each of the new additions will be present. With the new inscriptions below, the total number of names on The Wall totals 58,245.
Marine Corps Corporal William Floyd Bronson, Jr. (Gardner, Massachusetts)
March 17, 1949 - April 13, 1976 // Incident Date: March 9, 1968
Wall Location: 52 East, Line 46
Air Force Captain Edward Alan Brudno (Quincy, Massachusetts)
June 4, 1940 - June 3, 1973 // Incident Date: October 18, 1965
Wall Location: 5 East, Line 2
Army Sergeant Larry Dennis Callaghan (Quincy, Massachusetts)
October 8, 1946 - October 24, 2001 // Incident Date: July 21, 1968
Wall Location: 46 West, Line 32
Army Sergeant William Edward Humphrey (Bethel, Tennessee)
November 3, 1941 - February 6, 1980 // Incident Date: May 28, 1966
Wall Location: 17 East, Line 29
Army SP4 Robert Bruce Hunter (Belmont, New York)
August 15, 1946 - November 17, 2002 // Incident Date: February 23, 1969
Wall Location: 31 West, Line 11
Army PFC David Michael Johnson (Denver, Colorado)
January 5, 1947 - February 2, 2001 // Incident Date: June 8, 1966
Wall Location: 13 East, Line 29
Navy PO2 Patrick Augustine McKenna (Fairfax, Virginia)
February 8, 1944 - February 3, 1969 // Incident Date: July 15, 1968
Wall Location: 51 West, Line 22
Army PFC James Rae Sabourin (Detroit, Michigan)
March 28, 1947 - January 19, 1969 // Incident Date: November 3, 1967
Wall Location: 29 East, Line 34
Army SP4 Carl Dennis Wadleigh (North Bergen, New Jersey)
December 20, 1946 - May 31, 1968 // Incident Date: May 31, 1968
Wall Location: 61 West, Line 15
Navy AO1 Joe Lee Williams (Homer, Louisiana)
November 15, 1936 - August 5, 1964 // Incident Date: August 5, 1964
Wall Location: 5 East, Line 29
The Department of Defense makes all decisions about persons whose names are eligible for inscription on The Wall, based on established criteria. Each year, the Memorial Fund hires stone experts from Colorado-based Great Panes Glassworks, Inc. to add names to the black granite panels and to change the status designations of existing names from missing-in-action to killed-in-action. This year, the status symbols of 17 servicemen were changed. The diamond symbol denotes confirmation of death; the cross symbol represents missing in action; and when a service member’s remains are returned or accounted for, the diamond symbol is superimposed over the cross.
Memorial Day Observance To Be Webcast Live on the Internet
The Memorial Fund has teamed up with TVWorldwide.com to broadcast the ceremony live via its USVets.tv Internet TV Channel. Base Technologies is sponsoring the broadcast, to date. This is the third year TVWorldwide.com has partnered with the Memorial Fund to make its ceremonies available to veterans and the general public nationwide. Satellite coordinates for the broadcast will be announced in a future media advisory.
Established in 1979, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is the non-profit organization authorized by Congress to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Today, through a series of outreach programs, the organization works to preserve the legacy of The Wall, to promote healing and to educate about the impact of the Vietnam War.
The idea of heckling at a memorial service is flat out distasteful to me. It just seems wrong. I'm not sure if I'll be able to ever agree with doing so.
Scoundrel though Kerry may be, it just seems more like an insult to the memory of William Bronson than anything else.
Having said that, I am unable to think of anyone more deserving of being chased away from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial than a treacherous purple heart popinjay who invested his early discharge in slander, defamation and perjury against the very soldiers and sailors he claimed as his comrades.
How Kerry can find it in himself to stand in the presence of the names of so many of those whose memories he wrongfully stained is something I will never want to be able to understand.
As uncouth as I find heckling at a memorial service to be, the spectacle of a traitor like Kerry standing at a memorial to those he betrayed is infinitely more intolerable.
I've been waiting for FOX to say something about the Heckler this past few hours as reported here, to no avail! Perhaps, out of respect for veterans, they've cool it for now and report about it tomorrow. I can wish can't I?
is that a joke? Purple Heart 3? Did Kerry really do that?
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Actually this url is all over America's Vietnamese-American Media and boy are they ever demonstrating against the Enemy Within they all know as JOHN KERRY.
Photos: Little Saigon Anti-KERRY, Anti-KY Rallies
http://www.rfvn.com/picture/BieuTinh_NguyenCaoKy_2.htm
http://www.rfvn.com/picture/BieuTinh_NguyenCaoKy_1.htm
http://www.rfvn.com/picture/BieuTinh_NKK_02_15_04/BieuTinh_Nguyen_C_Ky_02_15_04_0123.JPG
It's now time to follow the Leaders, America....
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good one!
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