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“He is despised by legions of Vietnam veterans”
I despise him. He has let people call him a hero when he knows he is a traitor and a coward.
McTraitor has done everything he can to hinder the POW/MIA issue. If you do not believe me just go here-
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/
A conservative vote for McCain is a slap in the face to those of us who know him for what he is. When people say I should vote for McTratior it hurts because of what I know of him.
You may want to know that a new kid (yes I said kid because that’s what we were) was lost his first night out with us and I will never know his name. There is more to the story that just drives me crazy and I have no one to turn to because most people think if we talk we weren’t there.
One last thing- we were not fighting for America’s freedom. We were fighting for our friends in our squad, platoon, or company so we could come home. In 1969 all we did was kill people and pull one operation after another.
People do not know what it’s like to hump the boonies needing water, food and many times more ammo or a new barrel for a Mike-60 because it melted down while we were being overrun or to dig in the bottom of a bomb crater in search of water.
My Battalion Commander was known as the bear and he would not resupply us unless we had a kill or a prisoner. We never sent him a prisoner because we would not take one alive. We spent many nights in the jungle hiding because we were out of ammo.
My life has been H—LL since I returned home. And now as an old man who is disabled, I stay home and place sandbags around my heart and I let no one in.
The kids fighting and dying in Iraq will come home and one day and they will suffer the abuse from the Veterans Affairs that many of us have and there hearts will break because the people who were so gung ho to send them there just sit on there hands and let the politicians cut our benefits.
You may not like what I said but there are many more vets just like me out here and all we want is to come home. I have carried the dead now for years and I am tired and I am tired of hating McTraitor. I would like to drop this rucksack of pain that I live with everyday.
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. I’m just weak and a complainer.That’s ok’ I’ve been called worse than that.