To: Brugmansian
Excuse me! In his own words "“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008."
He said 'since the days I served in Vietnam' ... pretty clear to me.
No distortion there, except Mr Blumenthal claiming to be somewhere he wasn't. He made a statement that was not truthful. He could have said 'he served during the Vietnam Era in the Reserves' and it would have been truthful.
Claiming to be in country ("in Vietnam") when he wasn't ... that is the problem. No distortion. Pure falsehood.
11 posted on
05/18/2010 6:25:21 AM PDT by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: K-oneTexas
Well at least he didn’t claim to have been sent by Nixon to Cambodia.
28 posted on
05/18/2010 6:59:56 AM PDT by
Erasmus
(Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
To: K-oneTexas
Ya know, as an Era Vet myself I have gone through my life making sure I always qualified myself as an Era vet to make sure it was understood.
I must thank my fellow Vietnam Vets who have always given me the same respect as I do them for their service during that time. But one thing said was definitely right...It didn't matter where we served, we all got the same treatment coming home.
37 posted on
05/18/2010 8:06:56 AM PDT by
Wilum
(Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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