Posted on 01/27/2007 6:45:17 PM PST by MrClose
Here we go Again!
In 1968 .. I received a letter from the local selective service board that caught me by surprise.
It did, and still does make me laugh with the opening line of: "Greetings".
From that day forward, my life has never been the same!
As a young adult, (teenager really), I found myself sitting thousands of miles away from home, scared and confused but .. "Proud" because .. I was serving my country.
I apologize, I have gotten ahead of myself.
I never questioned why I was there and I have never really regretted it 'Except' for one moment in time, which I will Never Forget!
I had a friend that I grew up with. (didn't we all? LOL)
This friend of mine was exempt from the service call because, he not only was a college student .. he was married and had a six month old baby girl.
God help me.
I don't really want to relive this but I hope that it will serve a purpose in doing so.
My friend, when he found out that I was being drafted, went to our local recruiters office and .. I'm guessing here, started the Buddy Plan!
He told the recruiter that the only way that he would Volunteer to join in this/that unpopular war was if he and I could serve together!
Well to make this Long post , a little bit shorter:
Gary and I were dropped "somewhere" in a Saigon paddy, in the middle of the night and life as I had known it, changed forever.
Gary and I had nothing with us except our rifles, some tins of horrible rations and .. a crank, battery operated radio. We were scared and alone.
We decided that since we were there with nothing more than each other for company, we would be crafty as hell and rewire, (rig) our hand cranked, battery radio and Try to pick up on some kind of local music station. (Remember, we were kids)
I am sad to say that Gary and I were successful.
We really did get that crank radio to work.
We picked up some local Saigon broadcasting station and, later that night, I the naive teen grew up.
What I heard. All that Gary and I Could Ever really hear on our rigged radio was Hanoi Jane!
One moment we were kids, Proudly bragging about how we could do Anything.
The very next moment ... Gary died. Gary died in my arms that night and, on our rigged radio, somewhere in the background, Hanoi Jane was with us.
God help me. To this day, I wish that Gary and I had never been able to get those broadcast!
Hanoi Jane is back and Not Only is she doing what she did so well in the sixties, (Traitor-ism), she is NOW saying that she can come out and not feel ashamed! SHE WAS ASHAMED .. ALL OF THESE YEARS .. Because of the Lies and Distortions that have been told about her over the years!
THE NERVE of this piece of crap!
THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE should have been Executed Years Ago as a Traitor but .. Here she is again .. Giving the enemy support and betraying our young men and women who serve this country Proudly!
I'm Done
MC
Got to give her credit, after almost 40 years she is still preaching the same sermon. Of course, sometimes tenacity and stupidity are interchangeable.
I take heart that this time around no one even knows who she is anymore...at least my age and under. She stands out no more than any other maggot infested protester these days.
BUMP
She hates this country sooooo much. Why the hell doesn't she get out?! My hatred knows no bounds.
Great point … and may she slip ever deeper into obscurity.
As a veteran of “her” war, I remember what she did and totally loathe her for her actions and general disregard for our troops.
Hanoi Jane's ego knows no bounds. It is most certainly disguising the most bruised self esteem anyone can imagine.
I'm so thankful that none of us are in her condition.
This sounds like so much BS, except for the part where she should've been executed. Hand carank radio? Maybe a telephone.
Your memory may have mis-served you. Draft notice salutations were singular: ""Greeting. Having submitted yourself to a Local Board composed of your neighbors for the purpose of determining your availability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, you are hereby ordered to report."
Yea, bur during those years, she's reinvented herself numerous times. Remember when she was "born again"? Remember when she apologized?
More lies from this piece of wasted meat.
bur = but
Or maybe there's a bur in her butt.
Share your point of view on Jane Fonda. Recollect some dead youngsters and each one of them was better than Jane Fonda. A thousand times better.
Do you know many men had that exact same thought today?
THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE should have been Executed Years Ago as a Traitor but ..
Do you know many men had that exact same thought today?
Me for one. I cant think of words disgusting enough to describe what I think of Hanoi Jane Fonda. What a loathsome anti-American piece of garbage she is. I am sure after this latest obscenity of hers the Urinal target sale will grow. Thats about all she is good for selling urinal targets.
How is the old druggie?
that must have been terrible, but hearing someone praise the very person who just killed your friend. i wouldnt be ablr to take it. i would have hunted her down and given her the same treatment her "friends" had given you. you are a better man then i am
She, like Kerry did during a Senate committee meeting last week, are compelled to vindicate their past treachery.
"We learned nothing from Vietnam," I heard her say earlier today.
Now that she's reliving her past glory, how long will it be before she publicly retracts her apology to the Vietnam vets she betrayed?
I have read her supposed apology over and over and have yet to see an apology anywhere in it. She only apologies for the timing of her anti-Vietnam rant, not it’s content. And she feels somewhat sorry for the fact that it hurt the prisoners of war that were held in N. Vietnam.
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