Media : Kerry lies about being in Cambodia Dec 1968
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=ascii&q=john+kerry+1968+Cambodia&btnG=Search+News
So what are we to make of Sen. Kerry's self-seared 30-year-old false memory
of Christmas in Cambodia with its vast accumulation of precise details?
Of being shot at by the Khmer Rouge (unlikely in 1968) and of South Vietnamese
troops drunkenly celebrating Christmas (as only devout Buddhists know how)?
It's not about dates and places.
For Kerry, his Yuletide mission was an epiphany:
the moment when he realized his government was lying to the people about what was going on.
This is the turning point, the moment that set the young Kerry on the path from
brave young war volunteer to fierce anti-war activist.
And it turns out it's total bunk.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn15.html
I hate Hanoi Kerry with my heart and soul.
Watching him in 1971 just brings it all back home.
F**K You Hanoi Kerry!!!
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.