[RaceBannon]

Feel free to disseminate as you like.

[RaceBannon]

This might interest you.

[F14 Pilot]

Good post!

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

Very compelling post, thanks

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[Lancey Howard]

This is a great, thoughtful, and well-researched essay.
I am 50 and I remember those days like it was yesterday.
I ALWAYS thought that it was the Soviet-provocateur-led anti-war culture which killed America's resolve to win the war. Kerry was a very useful chump in those anti-war efforts, and yes, he does have blood on his hands. Fonda at least had the (bare and belated) decency to apologize.

Thanks for the ping - - this one is bookmarked.

Semper fidelis,
LH

[snuffy smiff]

very nice, really ties it all together

[Lancey Howard]

Jim Bancroft is a former Marine who served in the United States Marine Corps from 1977 to 1981, and served off the coast of Iran for the Hostage Rescue Attempt of April 24-25, 1980.

First, I remember well the hostage rescue attempt. I was at Lejeune at the time and the place was abuzz that we were going.
Second, what's this "former" Marine stuff, Marine?

Semper fidelis,
LH

[conshack]

It seems like there is some disparity in the numbers. He quoted 36,000 KIA at the end of 1968 and 58,000 at the end of the war this amounts to more than the 9,000 additional deaths that he referred to. Did I miss something here. If somebody has an explanation, could they FReepmail me with it? Thanks

[Diver Dave]

Good Job Marine! Thanks and Salute! ...two

[patj]

Thanks for the post. It lays out everything in one easy to read and remember history lesson.

[ppaul]

BTTT

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Attention!

Hand Salute!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Bump!

[onyx]

Gen. Patton received a master's degree in international affairs from George Washington University, graduated from the Army's War College and did graduate study in management at Harvard. After Vietnam, he commanded the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood, Tex. -- the same unit his father had led in North Africa during World War II. He retired from the Army as a two-star general in 1980, having twice received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army's second-highest award for combat valor, the Distinguished Service Medal and the Purple Heart.

After his retirement, Gen. Patton settled on a 250-acre farm in rural Massachusetts. He began by raising blueberries, and more than 200 varieties of produce are now grown on the farm. He named the fields on his farm in honor of soldiers killed in combat under his command.

In 1984, he called Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) "soft on communism" for his antiwar stance during the Vietnam War and charged that Kerry "gave aid and comfort to the enemy and probably caused some of my guys to get killed." Those statements have been resurrected by conservative commentators during the current presidential campaign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19368-2004Jun30.html

George S. Patton III, died on July 1st this year.
He was "on to" Kerry in 1984, but too few listened.

[kellynla]

Marine Bump!

Excellent job, Race!

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[stockpirate]

ping

[stockpirate]

Fron the FBI files on VVAW we find the following. Go to page 21 read to 25 on this link :NV call to VVAW page 21 - 25

"[redacted] that on April four, one nine seven two, a representive of the North Vietanese Government at the Paris Peace talks telephoned the 'movement' in the United States to be ready to take action, presumably demostrations, to counter expected escalation of bombing by American air forces in South Vietnam as a result of the increased military action of North Vietnamese forces in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam.

Link to FR post. FR post

[maica]

Great article. Bookmarked!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

“Without question, we were held captive longer because of the anti-war people,
the Kerrys, the Fondas and Haydens,
the names we knew over there -
they encouraged the enemy to hang on.”
Excerpt from “Stolen Honor” website
- Leo Thorsness
Former Vietnam POW

http://www.stolenhonor.com/

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Kerry's disrespect in 1971 to USA Symbols Video

Windows Media .......... Real Player .......... Quick Time .......... AOL

Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddam’s 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.


Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. ’65-June ’66
- 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."

Free online version of
Kerry's "The New Soldier"
You can read it without downloading pdf files!
CLICK HERE

PHOTO GALLERY ONLY
CLICK HERE

The New Soldier, (46 pages)
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War
FREE E-BOOK
IN PDF FORMAT
WITH PHOTOS


Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!

NEW:
“Without question,
we were held captive longer
because of the anti-war people,
the Kerrys, the Fondas and Haydens,
the names we knew over there -
they encouraged the enemy to hang on.”
Excerpt from “Stolen Honor” website
- Leo Thorsness
Former Vietnam POW
CLICK HERE

Jane Fonda tells the student audience at the Michigan State University in 1969;
"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope,
you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communist."

Joe Moore, Can Tho Airfield 550th Signal Company

Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.

Kerry's disrespect in 1971
to USA Symbols Video

Windows Media
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.wmv

Real Player
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.rm

Quick Time
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.mov

AOL
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.mpg

Send this url for the online "The New Soldier" version

http://ejsmithweb.com/fr/newsoldier/

Send this url for the online photo gallery of "The New Soldier"

http://freekerrybook.com/photo0

Send this url for the Stolen Honor website

http://www.stolenhonor.com/

Print this out (46 pages) and disribute it,
especially to the liberals you know.

http://freekerrybook.com/

[Cboldt]

By leading and organizing protests against the war, John Kerry encouraged the North Vietnamese to continue the war, and thousands of Americans died...
Over a Million South Vietnamese died...
Over a Million Cambodians died . . .
American prestige was tarnished. . .
Islamic terrorism was born and not stopped because of American reluctance to engage in combat after Vietnam, reluctance which was called the "Vietnam Syndrome" . . .
Communism attempted to overthrow more countries in our own hemisphere . . .
An anti-war leader, Bill Clinton, carrying on the same traditions as John Kerry, failed to stop the obvious growing threat of Islamic Fundamentalist sponsored terrorism . . .
And now, we are engaged in a world wide terror war. The United States appears to be alone in it, too. All because of the pacifism of the American Anti-War movement of the 1960's.

Wow. Sobering truth there. *bump*