Thank you.
One of my buddies at the VA hospital had a horrendous tour of duty. He was a door gunner. He came back through SF. His reception there was very ugly. Protesters would wait for the military buses. They were jeered, sworn at, etc.
This man is a real live hero (he won't tell you that). He saved countless lives, picking up wounded and dead from hot LZ's. He branded himself a war criminal after hearing that over and over from Kerry/Fonda and company. He is just barely functioning now.
There is hope for him, however. Although we all are 'damaged goods' so to speak, his wife has stood by him for 31 years. He is beginning to understand that the mores on the battlefield are different than that of polite society. He was not a cop. He was a soldier.
He is one of the guys I would like to introduce Sen. Kerry to.
I put a post on FR a few months before the election that I would be attending an event in Beverly Hills to get a signed UNFIT FOR COMMAND from John O'Neill. A Wisconsin FReeper contacted me and asked me to get two extra books, one for him and one for an employee. There were no book signings in his area. His employee had worked for him for seven years and never mentioned Vietnam until the SwiftVets came forward. I had O'Neill write: To xxxxxx, my comrade in arms. Finally, welcome home.
When the FReeper received the books I sent, his employee was overwhelmed and had to go be alone for awhile.
Kerry is not fit to shine your buddie's shoes. And that's an understatement.
"His reception there was very ugly. Protesters would wait for the military buses. They were jeered, sworn at, etc.
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I'd like to find out when these are and go and cheer for the soldiers.
B@stards.