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The scar of Vietnam has been reopened and the blood is flowing again. The difference is now we have the benefit of history and can look back and see. We can thank John Kerry’s handlers for making his 4 months of Swift Boat service as his primary reason for being President of the United States. The gamble they were not counting on was the pain millions of Vietnam Vets were going to feel when John Kerry saluted and said, “reporting for duty.” These men remember being shot and wounded in the jungles of Nam only to come home to get stabbed in the back by John Kerry’s army. This election has reopened those stab wounds.

For those too young to remember Vietnam and Watergate, those were some of the darkest days in America. As a high school kid our class was the first class to have nobody drafted or allowed to go to Vietnam. I was anti-war although not to the point of going to the protests, but would go to the concerts that were all anti-war. Most of us didn’t go to the major protests that Kerry and his organizations formed that were in every city in this country and especially college towns like Eugene.

These protests were well organized and funded primarily by different branches of the Communist Party. The Soviet Union believed they could overthrow this country from within and millions of us were sucked into these protests over the war. Many of us believed the war was wrong and believed Communism was a legitimate form of government. We were told that China was the model and since Russia was so censored, the Gulag was never known. Many of us later learned that we were wrong, dead wrong while many like Kerry never did.

What we didn’t understand was the pain that these protests were causing the Proud and Honorable Soldiers returning from the war. These men did their patriotic duty, to fight for their country in what turned out to be a just and moral war. These men were fighting and dying so that 10-20 million SE Asians would not be slaughtered by the most brutal forms of Communism known to mankind. These Vets were the best and brightest getting wounded and killed so that a small country a half a world away could have a chance at freedom. When these men finally came back to their free country they were spit on and called baby killers. How could we???

I am so sorry for being so wrong. My apologies to all the honored Vets who made this country strong and especially to those who served in Vietnam and never received their dues. We were fooled. Fooled by a well organized and well funded masquerade. This facade was founded by the Communist Party and it’s main General was John Kerry. Kerry organized Vietnam Vets Against the War which was the flagship for all war protest. His medals, Jane Fonda and his Band of Brothers, which included the Black Panthers, gave him instant credibility.

Kerry used this power to stab his fellow Vietnam Veterans in the back. We have now found that baby killing was the exception as in any war. We find that razing villages like “jenjis shawn” (how French) was not done, except perhaps by Kerry. We find that the testimony in front of Congress and elsewhere was a total fabrication by him and his lying witnesses. These are the wounds that are flowing freely again and this is the reason so many vets feel betrayed again. Now these Vets find out that Kerry was making these lies up!

When he went in front of the country again after all these years of letting bygones be bygones and saluted, reporting for duty; millions of Vets felt the bayonet turn in their backs. They remembered walking across those tarmacs and having protesters unjustly spit on their faces. They remember the shame of no parades or pride in wearing their uniforms. They see the heroes of Desert Storm and say, why not me? They remember Kerry leading protests against them and against their Honorable Duty, making them the villains. Now with history finally on their side, they are ready to finish this argument and it needs to be finished. Now they know where the enemy lies. This is no longer just about a Presidential race, but about Truth and Honor.

I salute every Vietnam Veteran from the bottom of my heart!

Pray for W and The Truth

Thank you, bray. You wrote what I feel and what I lived. I have apologized in person and in several threads here on FR. Still, besides the harm my being duped caused, the guilt is never going to go away.

The only positive thing is that I will never again be duped. I am older than you (Class of '61). I was warned by my father that the communists funded the protests and he was an FDR Democrat. My Navy friend told me "there is only one reality", but I chose to believe his was wrong. I tell the kids and Kool-Aide drinkers today that they will wake up at night in the future in a sweat over their gullibility and how they are being used. Some are listening.

We all have to continue telling the young how easily we were fooled and how much harm was caused by our believing a lie.

I hate Kerry more each day. He and his Senate friends and Hanoi Jane and the rest, including all the groups whose records I bought and concerts I attended, convinced me to distrust my country and her military. I should have, instead, distrusted anyone who used their power to sell out America and her heroes. Add to the carnage: the people of Vietnam living in a police state; the people of Nicaraugua who lived longer than necessary under the Sandinistas; the trashing of Col North and his men; the betrayal of the POWs and MIAs and their families.

We were warm bodies and useful fools. Years later, when we voiced opinions that were pro-capitalism, pro-religion, pro-individualism and pro-America & Israel, the same people who used us then turned against us.

Never again.