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Nov. 3, 2004: Vietnam vets - finally, you heroes have come home
Doug from Upland
| 8-25-04
| Doug from Upland
Posted on 08/25/2004 1:51:55 PM PDT by doug from upland
Nov. 3, 2004: Vietnam vets - finally, you heroes have come home
You were spit on. You were called war criminals. You were called baby killers. You served your country and came home to abuse and to be shunned by your countrymen. Many never came home at all.
There were lost limbs, broken lives, broken families, alcoholism, drugs, homelessness, despair, and even suicide. You could not understand why you were so hated. There was no parade welcoming you home. There was nobody to offer you their seat on a full airplane. There was no one wanting to shake your hand and say, "God bless you, soldier. Thank you for what you have done for our country." Never have some of us been so ashamed of our country because of what was done to you.
Yesterday's crushing electoral defeat of Senator John F. Kerry has finally brought some closure. The repudiation of one of the chief architects of bringing together the forces that heaped shame and indignity on you has finally shown the whole world what many of us knew all along. You served honorably. You were heroes.
In desperation, Kerry made a few weak attempts of hinting at apology. It was far too little. It was far too late. It was far too disingenuous. And it angered and lost the support of the most vile of those on the America-hating far left.
For the service Kerry actually gave in Vietnam, he has our gratitude. His refusal to open all the records during the campaign still leaves us wondering what his service really was and what medals he really did earn. Apparently, he is never going to let us know all of the truth.
Three decades ago, Kerry stabbed you in the back. He did it then during demonstrations, public statements, and sworn testimony before Congress in which he lied about fellow comrades in arms. The damage he did was considerable. He caused men to die. Many of you were tortured because you would not repeat his lies and admit to your torturers that you were war criminals.
During the 2004 campaign, Kerry shamelessly did it again. With people like James Carville and Paul Begala, the Hollywood elite, a failed far left network called Air America, newspapers such as the NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES, media surrogates such as Chris Matthews, and an endless supply of the slimiest attorneys, he attacked the swift boat vets who actually had the courage to come forward and set the record straight. Kerry's hitmen, and they were that in every sense of the word, tried to blackmail them into silence by creating "Brown Books" that looked into their personal lives to find financial and marital trouble. Seldom in the history of this great nation has a presidential candidate stooped so low as did John Forbes Kerry. To say that he got down in the gutter is to give him credit for too high an elevation. He was below the gutter. He was in the sewer with vermin.
The more we learned about Kerry, the more Americans didn't like him. That is why he tried so hard to suppress UNFIT FOR COMMAND. That is why 527 groups spent over a hundred million dollars trying to do damage to President Bush, why a billionaire spent a fortune, and why a slovenly so-called documentary filmmaker created one of the great works of propaganda ever produced.
The political tsunami finally hit shore and washed away Kerry's campaign when all of America finally learned that Kerry was a hero on both sides of the war. Yes, they saw his place of honor in Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum (formerly known as the "War Crimes Museum") in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). The communists who killed over 50,000 Americans celebrate Kerry as a hero.
We can never make up for what this country did to you. We can only ask your forgiveness. You were the forgotten heroes. No longer. You have been vindicated. With heavy hearts, open arms, and tears in our eyes, we say to you all, welcome home, heroes. Finally, welcome home.
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To: doug from upland
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posted on
08/25/2004 2:15:09 PM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: doug from upland
That what I think. Thanks.
22
posted on
08/25/2004 2:16:36 PM PDT
by
eyespysomething
("Funding the American troops in combat should never be a complicated issue." D. Cheney 8-12-04)
To: doug from upland
The only thing I smoke is salmon.... Better than Carp....too hard to keep them lit....and crawfish will pinch your nose....if you dont hold them the right way while lighting them...
23
posted on
08/25/2004 2:17:23 PM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: doug from upland
24
posted on
08/25/2004 2:21:11 PM PDT
by
mewper
To: doug from upland
Great article -- get it published on Nov. 3, 2004!
25
posted on
08/25/2004 2:21:50 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
Maybe it would have more impact to have it published now. :)
26
posted on
08/25/2004 2:23:30 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(John Kerry cried and asked TaRAYaz to make the SwiftVets stop)
To: doug from upland
Nicely done!
BTTT!
27
posted on
08/25/2004 2:25:25 PM PDT
by
NYTexan
(Fear Mongering is the soul of Liberalism!)
To: doug from upland
28
posted on
08/25/2004 2:30:15 PM PDT
by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
To: IPWGOP
Great cartoon -- it has Kerry wanting to take his swift boat and flee down river
29
posted on
08/25/2004 2:48:43 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(John Kerry cried and asked TaRAYaz to make the SwiftVets stop)
To: SuziQ
I've been saying and thinking the result will be something like 37% Kerry. Bush 58%, Nader 5%. I don't drink but when these numbers come up on Nov. 3, I'm going to have a big one.
The only other thing we will need is 61 republican senators, and Daschle not being one of the dems.
30
posted on
08/25/2004 3:06:12 PM PDT
by
chainsaw
(VOTE AMERICAN - VOTE REPUBLICAN)
To: SuziQ
I've been telling my husband the same thing - 55%. Hopefully it will be a self-fulfulling prophecy. :)
31
posted on
08/25/2004 3:08:14 PM PDT
by
agrace
To: doug from upland
Brilliant...Do you have ESP per chance?
32
posted on
08/25/2004 3:16:05 PM PDT
by
nyconse
To: doug from upland
Viet Nam Veterans, they are STILL serving!
33
posted on
08/25/2004 3:16:33 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
(Don't be a girly man! Vote Republican!)
To: doug from upland
Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddams Defense
arabnews press release 25 August 2004
NOTE :
Ramsey Clark is pictured below with Kerry and
Vietnam phony vet Al Hubbard
Who was head of the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement.
NEW:
FReeper smith288 has an online version of
Kerry's "The New Soldier"
You can read it without downloading pdf files!
CLICK HERE
From Kerry's "The New Soldier":
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. 65-June 66
Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet. Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you cant live in his block, after the war. Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong. Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you wont have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you wont have to deal with having been there.
- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam. The only Vietnamese he ever met was when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris
on the American Communist Party's nickel.
John Kerry's explanation: "He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."
The New Soldier, (46 pages)
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the WarPART I (pdf file)PART II (pdf file)PART III (pdf file)Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!
Send this url for the online version
http://ejsmithweb.com/fr/newsoldier/
Print this out (46 pages) and disribute it,
especially to the liberals you know.
Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.
http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Inro.pdf
http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier.pdf
http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Epilogue.pdf
"First Kerry picked Edwards BUT now he picks Hanoi Jane!"
34
posted on
08/25/2004 3:18:40 PM PDT
by
68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
(Hanoi Jane and Hanoi Kerry sitting in a tree, sitting in a tree F-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G)
To: doug from upland
How will Kerry apoligize to my brothers - who can't hear him now?
Kerry's activity gave aid and comfort to the enemy that killed them --- and extended the war to cause the death of many more.
Kerry IS the enemy.....no apology at this time is acceptable - no apology is sufficent...
Semper Fi
35
posted on
08/25/2004 3:38:52 PM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek...But I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: nyconse
No ESP. Unlike Kerry, I have no need to tell whoppers.
36
posted on
08/25/2004 4:12:26 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(John Kerry cried and asked TaRAYaz to make the SwiftVets stop)
To: river rat
That picture is so real and moving. I went to the wall on Father's Day, 1995. Messages from wives, sons and daughters, were everywhere. We all cried, everyone who was there. All strangers sharing a common loss.
37
posted on
08/25/2004 4:18:44 PM PDT
by
Luke21
(Christ is wonderful)
To: doug from upland
Great vision...but what about the polls?
38
posted on
08/25/2004 4:31:55 PM PDT
by
rushmom
To: rushmom
The polls, they are a changin'.
39
posted on
08/25/2004 4:43:23 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(John Kerry cried and asked TaRAYaz to make the SwiftVets stop)
To: doug from upland
Doug, all over the electronic media, including Fox, it's all about what an uphill battle Bush has, and how great Kerry is doing. It's hard not to be down.
40
posted on
08/25/2004 4:51:29 PM PDT
by
rushmom
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