To: OldFriend
Add the fact that Kennedy got us started in the Viet Nam war. My first tour there was in 1962, he was President
To: Hardcorps
When I think of the lives ruined by Kerry's anti war activity it makes me sick. Vets denigrated in the eyes of their families, unable to get jobs, the suspicion of their civilian fellows.
Nothing can make up for all that pain.
20 posted on
08/09/2004 5:52:30 PM PDT by
OldFriend
(WAR IS THE REMEDY OUR ENEMIES HAVE CHOSEN)
To: Hardcorps
For the record
12 Feb 55 - President Eisenhower's administration sends 1st 350 U.S. advisers to South Vietnam
to train the South Vietnamese Army
08 Jun 56 - 1st American advisor was killed
5 Sep 56 - President Eisenhower tells a news conference that the French are
"involved in a hopelessly losing war in Indochina"
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