Posted on 08/27/2004 10:07:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 08/28/2004 1:23:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BODY: Vietnam. The Mekong Delta. February 1969.
US Navy boats glide through rays of sunlight glinting off cobalt waters. Lush green palms and mangroves sway on river banks, and just under them dozens of Viet Cong snipers are dug in deep. John Forbes Kerry, then a 25-year-old skipper of the six-man crew on Patrol Craft Fast 93, is about to be ambushed.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Chock-full of lies and ridiculous claims. The Boston Globe shilling for their man.
It was significant to me because Kerry pretty much admitted that he had reenacted his war scenes:
This action - cited as heroic achievement by his commanders and considered reckless by some of his crew - earned Kerry the Silver Star. In many ways, it was Kerry's defining moment, a gutsy impulse that turned a junior officer into a hero, launching him on a trajectory of fame. An experience of war reduced to its essence - kill or be killed - that would transform an aggressive soldier into a more reflective veteran against the war and, finally, into a young candidate who wanted to bring that experience to Washington.
And Kerry just happens to have captured it all on film.
"I'll show you where they shot from. See? That's the hole covered up with reeds," says Kerry, showing the films on a recent evening, his hand tightening on the remote control as he clicks the images down to slow motion.
"This is just something that I improvised. . . . The point was not to just take an ambush, but to go directly at them," adds Kerry, pointing to where he brought the boat ashore, and explaining how he returned later with a Super 8 millimeter hand-held movie camera to record highlights of the mission. "That's me right there. One of my crew was filming all this."
If he has the silver star action on film, he should release it IMO. That will set the record straight.
I am sucking on a lemon after reading that.
cobalt waters?
rivers I were on where clay colored, and not very appealing to fall into. (That's why it was called Brown Water Navy).
the gulf of siam was a beautiful aqua color, a lot like down in the FL keys.
This comes from the inner turmoil of being a lifelong phony, failed patrician, and traitorous scumbag.
"Eureka ping to GOLD"
Bookmarked, and copy printed for a soon to be delighted husband.
Wow.
Nauseating.
In one recurring dream he is consumed by snakes in the Mekong Delta. In another, according to Heinz, he shouts: "Get down! I got the women and the children! Get down, get down!" In the throes of such a dream, Kerry often leaps out of bed and crashes into bedroom furniture, Heinz told a gathering of the senator's supporters in New York recently.
He also sees his presidential aspirations disappear before his eyes...
Saving the children? I heard he shot a fleeing wounded Vietnamese teenager in the back and got a medal for it.
(Of course no one actually saw him doing it.... hmmm wonder if he was filming the event?)
Memories made easy.
Hours? How much footage did he take altogether, I wonder. Weird.
It certainly is! Kerry really is even more disgusting than Bill Clinton! Who would have thought anyone could be?
Smells like defeat.
Got the french from another thread, excellent quote for most of his stories.
If you are like me and do not know french use this link for translation:
This would make a good segment on the biography channel's criminally insane night
I'm not getting this picture somehow. Someone help me out here.
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