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Sam Johnson, former POW: "the pain inflicted by your country's indifference...(Today on House floor)
samjohnson.house.gov ^ | 2-16-07 | Sam Johnson

Posted on 02/16/2007 1:04:09 PM PST by smoothsailing

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1 posted on 02/16/2007 1:04:13 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Sam Johnson is a real man. GOD bless him.


2 posted on 02/16/2007 1:07:13 PM PST by neverhillorat (IF THE RATS WIN, WE ALL LOSE)
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To: smoothsailing

Excellent speech.


3 posted on 02/16/2007 1:07:14 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: smoothsailing

It is unsettling to be at war in a time when patriotism is a form of dissent.


4 posted on 02/16/2007 1:08:23 PM PST by TSchmereL ("Rust but terrify.")
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To: smoothsailing

Murtha can put that in his peace pipe and smoke it.


5 posted on 02/16/2007 1:09:11 PM PST by Rakkasan1 ((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
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To: smoothsailing

A real American hero!


6 posted on 02/16/2007 1:10:23 PM PST by marvlus
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To: smoothsailing

And then left still doesn't get it.

God Bless this Hero and all of America's Heroes.


7 posted on 02/16/2007 1:10:44 PM PST by Frosted Flake
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To: smoothsailing

Amen!


8 posted on 02/16/2007 1:10:56 PM PST by jwalsh07 (Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: smoothsailing
The demonrats have said Iraq was a repeat of Vietnam since the war began and now they are finally right. What is ironic, though not surprising, is that it is the demonrats who gave us Vietnam are trying to bring us another one.

Murtha is one of the most disgusting excuses for a human I've yet seen, but I'm sure he is a bonafide hero to al Queda and other islamic terrorists around the world. Perhaps they'll spare him from their next attack.

9 posted on 02/16/2007 1:13:15 PM PST by GBA (God Bless America!)
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To: smoothsailing

What an awesome speech he presented. God bless him.


10 posted on 02/16/2007 1:14:25 PM PST by cblue55
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To: smoothsailing
“We POWs were still in Vietnam when Washington cut the funding for Vietnam. I know what it does to morale and mission success. Words can not fully describe the horrendous damage of the anti-American efforts against the war back home to the guys on the ground.

“Our captors would blare nasty recordings over the loud speaker of Americans protesting back home…tales of Americans spitting on Vietnam veterans when they came home... and worse.

“We must never, ever let that happen again.

“The pain inflicted by your country’s indifference is tenfold that inflicted by your ruthless captors.

As a nation, we are not worthy of the military which protects us. We are truly despicable.

11 posted on 02/16/2007 1:14:44 PM PST by TheDon (Are you a cut and run conservative?)
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Sam Johnson ping!


12 posted on 02/16/2007 1:15:02 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Just A Nobody; W04Man; Jim Robinson; jazusamo; GitmoSailor; SandRat; ALOHA RONNIE; freema
Sam Johnson
13 posted on 02/16/2007 1:16:42 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

..a great man and an American hero


14 posted on 02/16/2007 1:16:48 PM PST by WalterSkinner ( ..when there is any conflict between God and Caesar -- guess who loses?)
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To: smoothsailing

God Bless this man


15 posted on 02/16/2007 1:19:04 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Hopefully we can find the video of Rep. Johnson's speech. A truly moving experience. God bless you Sam Johnson. **==


16 posted on 02/16/2007 1:21:23 PM PST by vietvet67
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"The pain inflicted by your country’s indifference is tenfold that inflicted by your ruthless captors."

God Bless you Sam Johnson!

As I was not a POW, I was "in country" while all this was going on back home and I can in no way associate to the pain the POW's felt. However, fighting a war for a nation that not only doesn't support "the mission", but for the great part opposes it and the men fighting it, is a pain I have never gotten over. To this day, even as a recovering alcoholic and born again Christian, I have to work daily to overcome the resentments long held against those who cut the legs from under us and our brave POW's. Perhaps that is why it is so much more painful to see it happening, yet again.

And yet within weeks of 911, that gnawing feeling of deja vu all over again began to creep in. When will we learn, if ever, that we will eventually have to devote all we have and more to defeat the insidious enemies we are facing, both abroad and yes, now, even at home?

"America ... Where are you now?"

Greg Adams
Brownsville, TX (on the other Front Line)

17 posted on 02/16/2007 1:21:32 PM PST by ImpBill ("America ... Where are you now?")
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To: smoothsailing

Wow.


18 posted on 02/16/2007 1:22:01 PM PST by groanup (USMC: When it absolutely, positively HAS to be destroyed overnight.)
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To: smoothsailing

I am soooo proud this man is my congressman! :*)
I salute his wonderful patriotism and loyalty to our troops. God bless you, Sam Johnson! And God bless our troops and their Commander in Chief!


19 posted on 02/16/2007 1:22:04 PM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
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To: jveritas

Those who heard him, yet cast their votes for this non-binding traitorous piece of trash resolution, must have hearts of stone.


20 posted on 02/16/2007 1:22:08 PM PST by Carolinamom (Whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure -- President Bush SOTU)
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