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To: TC Rider
My understanding was that there were a few hundred who turned their backs on him. The media focused on the picture of the two to minimize the story.

Wow. That sheds a different light, both on the amount of appropriately disrespectful behavior, as well as on the media's efforts to hide the truth. Do you have a citation, or photos, or other evidence (people who were there) that a hundred or more VFW members turned back-to while Kerry was speaking?

157 posted on 09/01/2004 7:36:45 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
Do you have a citation, or photos, or other evidence (people who were there) that a hundred or more VFW members turned back-to while Kerry was speaking?

Hmm, I'm searching for the source, but so far found only this:

"Kerry's reception by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, on Aug. 18, put him on notice; many veterans have not forgiven him for trashing the Vietnam War back in the 1970s. Some walked out of his speech. A few turned their backs in protest. The majority listened politely but responded with only tepid applause."

...from the NY Daily News. Not a hundred, but more than two.

Let's wait and see what happens this morning, now that the idea is out there that the vets can shun him.

177 posted on 09/01/2004 7:54:39 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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