[Conservative Vermont Vet]

"The Traitorous Rat-Bastard, John "The Snake" Kerry"

As a Nam Vet who worked dilligently with others to help expose this worthless POS in 04, as expressed in this article, we did manage to expose him for who and what he was and many are convinced that this and of itself helped defeat him.

And though we suffered mostly in silence for some 30+ years as a result of his slander and deliberate misrepresentation of our service, we did extract a measure of justice, though not nearly the full and complete exhoneration we should have been afforded and could have, had his complete military records been obtained and made public as well as his having been protected by the corrupt left and their sycophant allies in the mainstream media.

Most of all, it was for the 58,000 heroes who paid the ultimate price and were also vilified that this small victory was so sweet.

I penned this poem on the eve of the November 2nd 2004 election and am posting it for those who have not seen it.

[river rat]

Thank you for that....
Their voices and votes were finally heard.

[carton253]

Wow! Wow! Wow!

[Doctor Raoul]

Kerry and the media lied their fat asses off. There are so many veterans groups that despise Kerry and worked to defeat him in 2004. The one group I am happy got their wish are the POWs. Kerry's treason caused them to suffer in North Vietnamese prisons longer than would have happened without the "peace movement".

Kerry and his VVAW puke breathern, who tried to smear their own generation as damaged goods and worthless, took one in the shorts from those same POWs who did return and become sucessful. Successful enough that they were in large part responsible for "Stolen Honor" the movie that exposed Kerry.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Great poem. Thanks for your Service, sir!

[Inspectorette]

Thank you for your service to our country. Wish you had been here to know 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub - he was tireless in his effort to get the truth out about Jean AlQuerry during the '04 election. You and he would've been great friends, as well as brothers in arms.

"Tonk", as he was fondly known, served with honor during the Vietnam War, and had signed up as a Coast Guard volunteer on the Southern Oregon Coast after the attacks on 9/11. Sadly, he passed away last year, and was buried at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. He is still missed and always will be by FReepers. He would've LOVED this year's battle between the Dems.

I don't know if his FReeper home page still exists, but it was amazing. If some enterprising FReeper knows how to find it, please ping me.

[Inspectorette]

Well, duh on me! All I had to do was go to the Oregon page - Tonk's profile is still there:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~6869tonkingulfyachtc/

I apologize for not knowing how to copy and paste it as a hyperlink.