Posted on 08/30/2004 5:39:36 PM PDT by Fedora
Great analysis! I think one of the most important things you've got there is the confirmation that Kerry wrote the spot reports. The critique of the physical problems with the scenarios depicted by Kerry is also excellent.
I think the place to look at what happened to Kerry is the missing time before he went to Vietnam.
Also, if he was involved in anti-war activities prior to going to Vietnam than he could have met with Communist agents in South Vietnam.
Thanks for the ping, Tonk.
Bookmarked!
A whole lot of research there. It’s been extremely difficult to keep track of Hanoi John Kerry’s - that despicable, self aggrandizing, lying, backstabbing, seditious traitor’s - differing Walter Mitty tales.
Good job.
BTTT!!!!!!
S-2, student deferments, were granted for undergraduate study and (I think) for post graduate study as a ministerial or medical student, but not a law student.
Also, attacking into intense fire ... S/A and one-off rocket were typical, not intense.
Kerry’s account to Douglas Brinkley: “PCF 94 had taken a rocket-propelled grenade off the port side. . .Kerry felt a piece of hot shrapnel bore into his left leg.”
Kerry campaign press release, January 17, 2004: “On March 13, 1969, Rassmann, a Green Beret, was traveling down the Bay Hap river in a boat behind Kerry’s when both were ambushed by exploding land mines
Great job.
Thanks for the ping.
Other than his anti-war commencement speech and other tidbits, I don't know much about Kerry's pre-service anti-war activities. There is, I think, enough evidence about his character without finding evidence of a deeper conspiracy.
To penetrate Kerry's connection to subversives, look at who wrote his Senate testimony. As for subversioves in our present system, the people seem to be indifferent. Quite a few virtual commies have been elected to Congress.
The body of your html has, e.g., <SUP>23</SUP>
it should have <A href="#footnote23"><SUP>23</SUP></A>
At the other end, the footnote area, you need to name the "other end" of the link
e.g., <A name="footnote23"><SUP>23</SUP></A>
In short, the "first part" needs to have an <a href=#linkname>linkname</a>, and the other end needs an "a name=linkname" "/a". Notice having "#linkname" at the href, and no "#" at the named link. Notice too, the text between the "a href" (or "a name") and the closing "/a" is the clickable part that shows up on a browser.
Good read. I'm waiting for the liberRats to start critiquing Slick Willie for his "Service to his Country," but I'm not holding my breath.
Bumped for when I have time to read it - in work.
Looks good for a rough draft. Please keep me on your list when you want some input. Putting all of this in one place is a great idea. Good for talking points to and for the media.
In the O'Neill/Kerry debates on the Dick Cavett show, Kerry stated that he thought for two weeks about leaving after he received his third PH and finally decided that he would be more effective in ending the war if he curtailed his tour and left. In actuality, a curtailment request was already in Washington on March 17. When he left on March 26, it was almost two weeks from the March 13 incident, but the decision to leave must have been made almost immediately.
Outstanding presentation and research. Thanks.
Please put me on your ping list -- I don't want to miss the remaining chapters.
I think initially, Kerry was trying to build a war resume ala JFK. He saw an opportunity to get a cheap PH on his first training mission. I doubt if he was aware of the three and out possibility until later. Once he left his training phase and got command of his own boat, he realized how dangerous the assignment was. He lost his nerve and decided that he had to find a way out. As some have suggested here, he resurrected his first PH later.
If you look at the processing times for the three PHs, you notice that Kerry must have submitted his first PH in late January or early February at the latest. 1st PH approved Feb 28 for injuries suffered Dec 2; 2nd PH approved March 5 for injuries suffered Feb 20 (13 days processing time); and 3rd PH approved APR 17 for injuries received March 13 (processing time 35 days). Kerry had already submitted his request to leave on March 17 and left country on March 26 before the formal approval for his third PH.
I had friends who found their S-2 deferments withdrawn as soon as they completed undergraduate study.
In fact, in my part of the country (Georgia and South Carolina) you received an S-2 deferment for only eight semesters. If you couldn't finish college in that period of time, then the deferment ended; there were to my knowledge no exceptions.
Those going to medical school could receive an additional deferment (I heard the same story about ministerial study but have no personal knowledge of its veracity) but a deferment for any other sort of graduate study was out of the question.
I have no knowledge of the workings of draft boards in other areas of the country.
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