4. Retired Gen. George S. Patton III charged that Mr. Kerry's actions as an anti-war activist 'gave aid and comfort to the enemy.'
True. Patton uttered the remark in his capacity as a veterans' spokesman for Ray Shamie, Kerry's Republican opponent in the 1984 Massachusetts Senate race.
From the New York Times, Oct. 30, 1984:
The most heated moment of the campaign this year came when John McManus, a spokesman for the John Birch Society, and Maj. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., retired, the chairman of a Veterans for Shamie group, charged that Mr. Kerry was a Communist sympathizer guilty of "near-treasonous activity" in the Vietnam War.
From the Washington Post, Oct. 24, 1984:
Joining McManus, retired general George S. Patton, son of the famous World War II general and honorary chairman of Shamie's veterans' committee, called Kerry "soft on communism" and said that, by protesting the war, Kerry "gave aid and comfort to the enemy and probably caused some of my guys to get killed."
Okay, this is my take SO FAR.
I may only be the wife of a Viet Vet (mine made it home) but I am madder that spit about this.
Meaning no disrespect but when I see how all of the Senators have been fawning over the 9/11 families - I think about the wives that still don't know what happened to their husbands and I just feel it is time this country comes to terms with all of this,
What has McCain been saying" we don't need to open up old wounds about Vietnam", thats what he said when asked why he wouldn't support the SBVTS. Now we know why he wants Vietnam to go away.
Well I say for the good of the country now and in the future, as well as the families of POWS/MIAS of the past, it is NECESSARY thst this is FRONT PAGE NEWS.