Posted on 10/05/2005 3:03:34 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi
From:
John O’Neill Houston, Texas
Dear Friend,
Last year, when my fellow Swift Boat veterans and I spoke out about John Kerry, you rallied to our side. We will never forget your faith in our cause and your belief in our honesty. It made all the difference. Together we made history.
Like most of you, I believed our mission was over. We could all move on with our lives, return to our families and homes secure in the knowledge we had done the right thing for America, and for our children’s future.
Regrettably, that has not been the case for a distinguished group of Vietnam combat veterans who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with us during last year’s campaign. Their situation has become so critical that I felt compelled to break our long silence to inform you of this urgent matter.
The Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, an organization founded by some of the same POWs and their wives who joined with us to form Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth, has become the target of vicious legal assaults – multiple lawsuits designed to silence the voices of the POWs.
The VVLF is being sued to punish the organization for the content of the POW documentary Stolen Honor, which contrasts their own accounts of their service in Vietnam and suffering in North Vietnamese prison camps with the claims of the antiwar movement.
They desperately need our help and I am asking, once more, for your support. I urge you to give what you can to assist these truly noble men and women.
It is no accident that this campaign to coerce and silence some of America’s most heroic figures from the Vietnam War has intensified just as the shrill voices of the extreme Left’s anti-military, blame-America-first propagandists are once again on the rise. Even Jane Fonda has resurfaced.
You might ask why the VVLF has been targeted in this legal assault – why attack men who endured years of unspeakable torture and suffering in defense of America? The answer lies in the question. These are among the most credible, living eyewitnesses to the trail of deceit and betrayal. All are highly decorated and each bears the scars and permanent physical disabilities of his long years in captivity. One is the recipient of our nation’s highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor. They paid for the right to voice their opinions with years of indescribable pain, hardship and torment. Their individual histories of perseverance under the direst of circumstances, and their fidelity to the principles of honor instilled in each American serving in uniform belie the despicable slanders laid at the feet of our military.
The POWs' very existence and their willingness to go public threaten the foundation of the Left’s propaganda, a lifetime of lies that accuse the U.S. military of being no better than the “armies of Genghis Khan.” It remains the Left’s most potent weapon as they continue to undermine the efforts of our Armed Forces and provide aid and comfort to America’s enemies.
The war for America’s conscience and soul rages on in the media, on the streets and quietly behind courtroom doors. In the vanguard of that battle, as they were some 40 years ago, are the POWs; some of America’s greatest heroes; men and their wives, fathers and mothers, many of them grandparents, who have already paid a heavy price for their loyalty and devotion to America and, sadly, find they must do so again today.
They deserve our respect, admiration and gratitude, but most of all our support, even as they try to protect and preserve the honor and reputations of an entire generation of American troops vilified by the extreme Left.
Won’t you stand up once more to defend our troops and veterans? Please give what you can to help the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation continue the still-unfinished task of setting the record straight about the Vietnam War and Vietnam vets.
This is every bit as important as our effort last year. If you’d like to stay informed about the VVLF’s ongoing work, please sign up for updates here.
Thank you again and God bless you and America.
Sincerely,
John O’Neill
Their e-mail address: john.o_neill@vvlf.org
I'm apparently behind the learning curve here, but why would you be required to remove any "useful links" to make direct contributions to such a worthy cause?
You can enter the site and easily find how to make donations. Instead, a direct link would have been removed from the moderator.
"Never before in history, have so many, owed so much, to so few" - 44th President of the United States, John F. Kerry (NOT! Thanks to these men!!!)
Donate with abandon, all of you "many".
BTTT! Thanks for posting. Thanks for continuing service John O'Neill.
Well, I guess this is my question....why would the moderator remove a direct link? Is it against the rules of the site or what?
PING!
Bump
Stolen Honor was very well done and widely distributed...it's not just going to disappear! If you have been seeing what is being done to Delay, you'd know that the LIEberals don't have to have a legal basis to file charges and their are all too many lawyers willing to do the DNC's bidding.
The site was sued over its mirroring of source material, and has to guard its legal status and its editorial integrity. The site does not, so far as I know, allow fundraising for anything other than its own maintenance. That is not its function.
Tonk, break out your PING lists.
Looks like you were right it is not time to MOVE ON!
But to FIGHT ON!
UPDATE:
Carlton Sherwood & the VVLF S U E John Kerry!!!
http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20952
legal documents:
http://www.vvlf.org/documents/Sherwood_and_VVLF_v_Kerry.pdf
Kerry's "Band of Brothers" = DNC lawyers. Even going after the Swifties has a political motivation - GetEvenWithEmIsm.
bttt
Should we be surprised that the VietNam era Anti-War Hate America Crowd is trying to use the courts to punish VietNam Prisoners of War? Of course not. They pathologically hate the Military, still see them as Murderers and Baby Killers they are emotionally invested in perpetuating the lies they told during the War. Forget that the millions of Mountain Tribes People were slaughtered after we cut and run from there. They were after all just Gooks. It is appalling that these 1960s Hippies are still waging a propaganda and disinformation campaign to punish these Veterans.
The Anti-War crowd has no shame. They have no concept of honor. They are representative of the current Democratic Leadership. Another reason to bail on voting Democratic. Mother Sheehan "Mother Tinfoil Hat Moonbat" is of this mindset. We should not forget that John Kerry "I Voted for the War before I voted against it" is of this mindset. Trust Fund, Red Diaper Baby dopers who support Kim Il Jong, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro etc. Let's give them the boot in the next election cycle. What despicable losers and cowards these people are.
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