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1 posted on 08/07/2004 10:06:20 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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YES to all!


2 posted on 08/07/2004 10:07:44 AM PDT by Boazo (LOSE THE TAG LINE)
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To: The Sailor; kjfine; Old Sarge; USAF_TSgt; darkwing104; txradioguy; Long Cut; Jet Jaguar; armyboy; ..

I spent 3yrs on a destroyer in the Navy from
'66-'69 as a Gunners Mate, GMG3.
USS CORRY DD 817 '68-'69 Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club Member.
http://www.uss-corry.com/
Home port was Norfolk Virginia
and sailed with her in the North Atlantic,
Caribbean,(dealt with Cuban gunboats off of Havana in Jan '68)
thru the Panama Canal, across the Pacific to Viet Nam and back.

I was there the same time Kerry was.
I was there Oct'68-Apr'69 on the destroyer USS Corry DD-817
which supplied PCF's and PBR's
and provided gunfire and gunfire support
in North AND South Viet Nam.

My ship may have even supplied
Kerry's boat in the Mekong Delta

Although there are many similarities between naval gunfire support
and Operation Sea Dragon (which ended Nov '68), they differ in two important areas:
naval gunfire support is normally fired at the request of troops ashore,
while Sea Dragon's mission is the interdiction of supplies and destruction
of military targets; and naval gunfire support is always conducted in South Vietnam,
while Sea Dragon missions are fired only above the demilitarized zone.

29 US Navy ships received gunfire from Viet Cong shore batteries.
My ship DID not get hit by the VC.

In Feb '69 my ship was part of Operation Bold Mariner
which was the largest amphibious assault since Korea.


3 posted on 08/07/2004 10:08:23 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (It only takes one idiot to raze a village.)
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DNC rules there was no leash and no panties so no foul.......

Stay Safe Tonk !


4 posted on 08/07/2004 10:09:38 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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This may be off topic, but I'm wondering if it is possible to find out just how many people took the advantage of the "3 Purple Hearts and I'm out".


6 posted on 08/07/2004 10:10:46 AM PDT by MarkeyD (<a href="http:\\www.michaelmoore.com>Maggot</a>)
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Why can't the Bush campaign or 527 surrogates put together an ad that will play Kerry's testimony in front of the Senate subcommittee where he accuses US Vietnam vets of atrocities? Surely the audio is public record, even if the liberal media might refuse to allow the video to be played? I can't imagine a more damning testimony to Kerry than what he said and never recanted. Or do people think this kind of ad is a MOAB-type assault against Kerry that is being held back until the last weeks of the campaign?


7 posted on 08/07/2004 10:13:41 AM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years!)
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John Kerry is either a "war hero" or a "war criminal"

He is a self admitted War Criminal.
He is a self proclaimed war hero.
10 posted on 08/07/2004 10:16:09 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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"why didn't he report the crimes he saw?"

----because he couldn't do that before he had the Purple Hearts and the other medals to use AS LEVERAGE, once he was safely OUT of the Military and free to pursue his "political career". As this issue has played out ,Dems and their nominee have NO CHOICE but to try and have it both ways and hope nobody much notices the contradictions and thundering hypocrisy of the "War Criminal/War Hero" paradox.


11 posted on 08/07/2004 10:16:11 AM PDT by willyboyishere (ua)
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Has any reporter ever asked Kerry whether he really did set the village on fire and shoot that kid in the back?

That at least deserves to be asked.


15 posted on 08/07/2004 10:20:49 AM PDT by GROOVY
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Of the 4 moths of his tour how many of those days were spent "filming"?


19 posted on 08/07/2004 10:22:46 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (It only takes one idiot to raze a village.)
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Isn't is STRANGE that the MSM is NOT calling for the release of Effingkerry's Medical and Service records? Of course the POTUS was hounded for months/years for his, but that is different......right? Right!


21 posted on 08/07/2004 10:24:50 AM PDT by PISANO (NEVER FORGET 911 !!!!)
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Hold his feet to the fire Tonk.


32 posted on 08/07/2004 10:41:16 AM PDT by GVnana
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Lying, coward, yellow-bellied turncoat war criminal. Ask me how I REALLY feel!


33 posted on 08/07/2004 10:44:55 AM PDT by TommyDale
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BTTT.
We are finally taking control of the reality of our experience and history.
Kerry will have nothing to say or stand on once this central (and only) foundation of his candidacy goes up in smoke.
I despise him.
Thanks for your post -- and your service.


34 posted on 08/07/2004 10:50:16 AM PDT by Viet Vet in Augusta GA
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John Kerry : "war hero" or a "war criminal"

(radio-advertizing voice emulator ON)
"John Kerry, he's two...two...action figures in one!"
37 posted on 08/07/2004 10:51:49 AM PDT by VOA
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I am proud of this -- I got banned from DU last night (where I was happily Trolling) because I kept asking them to tell me how I could tell my "conservative friends" how Mr. Heinz could possibly lead the country after having only 130 days of service?

I also asked how "we" (them) can run on an anti-war platform if "our" (their) candidate was so against it after so short a time.

Their answer: Ban me.

You rock Tonk!


44 posted on 08/07/2004 11:03:01 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
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John Kerry : "war hero" or a "war criminal"?

This is a trick question, right?

47 posted on 08/07/2004 11:06:59 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Take Luca Brazzi, make him an offer he can't refuse.)
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hanoi john says he's PROUD of being anti-war protester
48 posted on 08/07/2004 11:10:41 AM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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I won't call him a war crimminal but he is a treasonous lying POS.


50 posted on 08/07/2004 11:13:10 AM PDT by cripplecreek (John kerry the Jim Jones candidate.)
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War Criminal

Let's start prosecution proceedings!

51 posted on 08/07/2004 11:13:54 AM PDT by neutrino (Lord, what fools these mortals be! (William Shakespeare, Midsummer Nights Dream))
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Kerry and the PLO: A Band of Brothers.....


54 posted on 08/07/2004 11:14:20 AM PDT by ppaul
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