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I could have enlistd and served in 1971, after graduating from High School ... but I didn't. The media, and people like JFKerry had trashed the military and trashed the war effort.

But in 1974, after studying the issued, growing and maturing, I recognized that the U.S. had a valid reason for aiding an ally that we had a defense treaty with. Other SEATO countries were also aiding the people of South Viet Nam. Our efforts were commendable ... but LBJ and his micromanagement of the war, ham-stringing the military, created the environment until the Viet Nam War was falsely discredited. Kerry himself suggested that the South Vietnamese didn't care, and only a few thousand "upper management" people in SVN would "suffer" if we departed and North Viet Nam took over.

Well, we essentially won the war with heavy bombing in 1972 - and NVN agreed to withdraw and cease hostilities and respect the SVN government. But in 1974, the liberals drove Nixon from office, and the liberals decided not to honor any treaties with SVN ... and they essentially handed the country over to NVN. After the NVN violated the treaty and conquered SVN .... hundreds of thousands died, over a million fled, and millions were placed in "re-education camps." We reneged on our former allies, thanks to liberals like JF'nKerry and Teddy Kennedy.

I became a conservative ... joined the Navy and served active duty for 5 years, reserve now for 24 years. No regrets on my service.

I don't have ANY reservations or questions for our President ... it might be that he wanted to fly, and the Texas National Guard was the fastest route to flying. But he never never never did anything remotely resembling the shameful actions of JF'n Kerry!

Kerry might have "embellished" his record while in Viet Nam. I could live with that. Kerry came back and told lies about the military ... THAT is unforgivable. Kerry disrespected the military honors that were accorded him and other men when he threw ribbons and medals over a fence to "return them to Congress." I don't give a DAMN whether or not he threw his own medals (or just ribbons) over the fence. He admits to throwing other individual's medals over the fence .. and his own ribbons. Well ... those ribbons and medals are symbols of honor, like our American Flag. He might as well have burned or pissed on our flag ... in his effort to dishonor the symbols, he really dishonored himself. I would not vote for him for dog-catcher if he was the only person on the ballot.

But the reason we are dwelling on the Viet Nam War is because Kerry keeps bring it up ... because his Senate record is equally dismal with lack of support to the military, to our ability to gather intelligence (think of his effort to cut intelligence spending by $6 Billion after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and then he wonders why we didn't better anticipate 9/11).

Mike