Kerry Lied, And So Did I... Steve Pitkin submitted this remarkable article to The Washington Post, but it apparently didn't fit their needs...
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Posted on 10/06/2004 8:35:23 PM PDT by Interesting Times
Steve takes full responsibility for agreeing to "testify" at Winter Soldier, and has apologized for doing so. He basically just wanted to get out of there and didn't think it would ever matter to anyone.
Many returning combat vets were spit on ...literally as well as figuratively...
We can thank John Kerry for this...almost as much as 'personalities' like Walter Cronkite..
It was this 'most trusted man in television' (an oxymoron if there ever was one) who betrayed the truth in order to sell his Marxist revisionism to main stream America
Cronkite began to turn middle America against the war as well as returning RVN combat vets just as Kerry and Fonda, the SDS, and Free Speech Movement and Rock Music turned the young against Veterans, and our nation..
It was into this back stabbing (or simply back turning) milieu many Vietnam combat vets were immersed....and at the age of 19 or 20 to be accepted by peers is of primary importance.....
Kerry offered young veterans an 'outlaw' kind of group identity that gave vets some recognition by, and approval of, the college crowd and most importantly...the coeds that were along for the ride as they evolved into anti American feminists... ( the girls loved the anti war veterans (or at least what passed for love back then)...they had that outlaw/rebel kinda thing going on...that Hollywood loves to promote)
I don't judge the young vets who joined up with VVAW too harshly..many were my friends and guys I had the privilege to have fought alongside...the guys who were the real vets..in VVAW were brave good soldiers
Many of the real combat vets who joined felt unwelcome in and alienated from the hometowns they left...Kerry and his phony vet crew played these 'younger brothers' like fiddles...and used them to consolidate his own political power...he and the other wannabes are traitors most foul
If nothing else I hope the treatment of Vietnam vets upon returning from that war... taught us that we can never again let the Kerry's of our nation give 'their' meaning to or define our battles or our veterans...we must pledge to support our troops at war and at home.
And when the wounded come home...we must pledge to never abandon them and to always hold our elected official's feet to the fire making sure that OUR VETERANS after care is first rate...in every respect
We must never let the American people be deluded by Kerry and his America and Veteran hating crowd.....without a fight
Kerry wanted America to abandon her veterans that youngsters and their parents be disheartened by it... that they raise up a generation of fearful children who when they became parents they too would be unwilling to encourage their children to fight for America....children who are loathe to wear the uniform of a warrior...and of their nation's military
This is how to destroy a nation from within...take the heart out of its young.... make them ashamed and afraid ....unwilling to fight..unwilling to stand against all enemies foreign and domestic
When you are ashamed and afraid and unwilling to fight....you demonstrate that you have NO LOVE for your own skin let alone your own people or your own country your own family your own wife and your own children
Pride in and a willingness to fight and if necessary die for someone or something you love.....is real love
The kind Hollywood or Madison Ave rarely promotes...the kind the John F Kerry's of this world want to extinguish forever..
imo
Let's get this guy on Hannity and Clownes.
If anybody reads this post that has contacts, please post your efforts here.
Thanks.
I know that most of us got the connection to "Apocalypse Now" but I feel that needs to be posted for those who didn't.
Is Steve alone? Or are there a few others "in his boat"
Maybe if this gets pushed into the MSM, some others will come forward too.
We can only pray and hope for the truth to rule.
Kerry Lied, And So Did I... Steve Pitkin submitted this remarkable article to The Washington Post, but it apparently didn't fit their needs...
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The liberal media will always be on the side of liberal, corrupt demonrats!The man has more courage than the both Johns do~
I sent Steve a link to this thread, and he wanted to mention that the Washington Post was not alone -- the Atlanta Journal-Consistution and the Miami Herald also refused to run this article.
Ping.
I truly believe that Freepers could spread this around the country in very little time.
For example, I'm sure we have freepers in
1. Every State
2. Probably in every county
3. Possibly in every precinct
If each of those would forward that to their personal email lists, it would get wider distribution than the Wash Post could ever dream. If each of those forwarded it to their lists and so on, FR could blanket America in a matter of a day or less.
I know, I know....I've been staring at the moon too much.
:>)
To the best of my knowledge I'm the only one in the crowd who stepped forward. Then again, I'm probably one of the only ones who went back into the military and served 32 years total, 21 1/2 active duty.
What I still don't know after all these years, is how many of them were even in the military, much less in Vietnam.
The Secretary if VVAW claimed to be a Naval Pilot, and turned out to be an enlisted Storekeeper on board an Aircraft Carrier, and never set foot on Vietnamese soil.
This is not to demean in any way those who honorably served on Aircraft Carriers at all, but the only plane he flew was in his mind.
Steve Pitkin's story needs to go national - BTT
WOW!!
The media are disgusting. They are so LIBERAL biased. Glad we have FR,
FOX News, Rush Limbaugh et al and the good bloggers banging away at the
bad guys.
Hey, I've done my part. J
"I was wounded in 1969 and when well enough to walk and return to the US I was spit on, ridiculed and had feces thrown at my uniform."
It's bad enough the way this man and others were treated after returning home but to consider Kerry as a war hero is just amazing to me. If Kerry came home and opposed the war, then fine, that's his right. But to come home and lie and not support his fellow troops that were still over there is disgusting.
Steve appeared a couple of weeks ago on Brit Hume's show and Hannity & Colmes, and on the Tony Snow and Sean Hannity radio shows, but it's been pretty quiet since then. We're working to get him lined up with some more interviews.
Thanks for the headsup, TBarnett.
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Thanks for the ping.
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