Posted on 08/23/2004 9:28:14 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
I'd been working for the Army/AF Exchange System in Northern Virginia. Inventorying vending machines, for crying out loud. I found out about the veteran's in the Mall by observing army training at the forts. Both for that event, but primarily in riot suppression training for the MayDay events that followed. Really an ugly time.
I was working and living in N.Va, and went into town and found the dudes in the Mall. They were trying to police the perimeter, and you were asked who you were with and non-vets weren't let in, unless the were black, wearing black berets. I worked during the day, then went to the Mall, then crashed in back in Alexandria. The Marines that I found were bonafides, and it was obvious in our bs. None of the little click I was hangin' with was really antiwar, more into pro-party. Anyway, I missed the silliness of the search and destroy in the Monument area, but the dudes told me about it, how ridiculous it was, but how they laughed like children.
I don't remember what day it was, but some of the black beret'ed commies came over to our group and solicited us to go listen to a 'bigtime hero', a Navy Cross winner. Well, we got off our duffs and went to listen to this NC awardee. Marines hold NC awardee's in extreme high regard. What we heard was this commie puppy, John Kerry. His rhetoric was extremely Leninist, replete with references to the proletariat and the worker's struggle, and throughout mixed with comrade this and comrade that. He was introduced as a NC recipient, and did not deny this. For years, I accepted as fact that he had an NC. It was only during this campaign that I realized otherwise. We were not impressed with this commie, and laugh and ridiculed his dogma as we left.
It was shortly after this that our group was solicited to testify before congress to things we had actually done. We refused, on different levels. That what we had done had been done in honor, and that we had no intention of damning our brothers who were still there. The black beret's tried intimidating us into testifying, saying if we did not do it they would have people pretend and to tell the stories for us. It got really hot at this point almost came to blows. I don't remember if I was being held back or holding someone back, I think the former, but the black beret's beat a retreat. It was either this day, or the next that the medal ceremony took place. There was a dude with a bag of who knows what type of medals for whomever would care to pitch them onto the steps. To the best of my knowledge, there was no attempt to limit this to vets, and the majority of those were hippies, pretending to be vets.
This Hubbard dude was there with sKerry, wearin' a black beret, and sKerry had a gaggle of these clowns around him at all times, like handlers/bodyguards. My mates and I recognized Hubbard as a liar right outta the gate. Also in attendance were the wheelchair brigade. 4 of them. I think one was Kovic, but I'm not sure. I do remember my bro's and myself envying the babes that they attending to them, (seemed like they were the onliest ones who were allowed babes). We joked it was no doubt why they were in the antiwar movement.
When Kerry ran for senate, his name rang a bell, and his picture, well, was his picture. He was a whiny communist back then, and he is still a whiny communist. Phuc Hanoi John Kerry!
Thank You Brother!
68 grunt 1st hand account of John Kerry at Dewey Canyon III
AND Medal Toss day PING
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1197486/posts?page=81#81
Bump..Kerry loves the commies!
Thank you, 68 grunt!
What is Hunt's first name and the title of his book? I haven't read that one and want to look for it.
You're welcome. Can't say its my pleasure, because through the eyes of history its my shame.
Kerry was definitely not in Vietnam in Christmas '69. He was back home planning to run for Congress by then, LOL! Prior to that in October '69 he had helped his sister Peggy fly Adam Walinsky around for the big Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations scheduled for October 15, 1969.
"because through the eyes of history its my shame"
I disagree Brother
You REFUSED to turn on your Brothers.
Under the circumstances that took a lot of courage.
Hold your head up high!
Welcome Home Brother
Please, NO shame is due on your part. I join Tonkin is saying "Welcome Home".
God bless you, 68 grunt.
When Mr. Kerry, a spokesman for the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, attempted to introduce relatives of war prisoners at a news conference, four women shouted, "That's a lie!" and "What office are you going to run for next?"...One of the women accused Mr. Kerry of "Constantly using our own suffering and grief" for his political ambitions.
"Amendment XIV, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President ...., who, having previously taken an oath, .....as an officer of the United States, .....to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Perhaps I can write my congressman and see if he will propose a bill to "remove such disability" from Kerry. (So - when did you stop beating your wife?)
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Oops I did it AGAIN! Sorry!
BTTT!!!!!!
Kerry has always been a bastard, more than willing to betray his country for personal power.
BTTT!
Tonk, I pose these questions to you as the most in-the-know and in the forum on the subject. Forget kerry for a moment... if any one else,any other goofy lieutenant, had served on a ship near the coast,even docking at VN port for most of a year; would he not be considered a Vietnam Vet? Would he not receive at least one and maybe more service medals? And if he in addition finished out a years tour in country,would he not be credited with a full tour? I raise this question because we could be accused of belittling the service of those who served with him on his first ship and maybe others who served a short tour in country.
Me,locked up on Tan Son Nhut,albeit a volunteer, I was safer that year than most,including those out there in boats. Yet I got four service medals. I earned them.
It was kerry's antiwar activities which turned me against him(well I would never have been for him anyway) and all the stories of his self promotion during the time he was in the Navy have just cemented my loathing.
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