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Back in the delta, US envoy Kerry meets Viet Cong foe
yahoo.com ^ | 1/14/17 | afp Dave Clark

Posted on 01/15/2017 6:14:53 PM PST by ColdOne

Viet Cong veteran Vo Ban Tam remembers the first time he crossed paths with John Kerry on the banks on the Bay Hap river, a day that ended in bloodshed.

Almost a half-century later, the now 70-year-old Mekong Delta shrimp farmer locked eyes with the US Secretary of State on Saturday and they warmly grasped hands in mutual respect.

Kerry returned to the Vietnam waterway at the end of a visit to the Communist nation, less than a week before he was to leave office, searching for the spot where he won a Silver Star for bravery as a young US Navy lieutenant.

On February 28, 1969, as the skipper of Swift Boat PCF-94, Kerry was patrolling when Vo Ban Tam's unit launched an ambush.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: fakenews; hanoijohn; johnfkerry; johnfondakerry; johnkerry; kerry; kerryfairytales; needabandaidlol; secstate; servedinvietnam; tehranjohn; traitor; vietcong; vietnam; whatamaroon
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1 posted on 01/15/2017 6:14:53 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

kerry got a paper cut during the conversation, and collected yet another purple heart.


2 posted on 01/15/2017 6:15:44 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: ColdOne

Ketchup boys last hoo raah.


3 posted on 01/15/2017 6:18:17 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: ColdOne

More fake news from the yahoo klan - read about Kerry and his B.S. ‘service’ in Viet Nam (he claims Laos and Cambodia as well) pure fiction.


4 posted on 01/15/2017 6:18:32 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ColdOne

Kerry served in Vietnam, you know!


5 posted on 01/15/2017 6:18:33 PM PST by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: ColdOne

Kerry was as friendly toward them as Hanoi Jane.


6 posted on 01/15/2017 6:18:58 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: JohnBrowdie

of course, the person that didn’t meet with kerry was the 15 year old kid that he cut in half with twin .50 cal machine guns . . . shot in the back as he ran away.

that kid wasn’t available for comment.

my memory may be imprecise, but it seems that was somehow involved in his silver star.


7 posted on 01/15/2017 6:19:56 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: ConservativeMind

Do you guys really believe this story?


8 posted on 01/15/2017 6:20:03 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: ColdOne

Kerry was a stinkkin traitor like North Vietnam “ song bird” mcCain. I don’t think it is too late for a trial and there is overwhelming evidence on both those bastards


9 posted on 01/15/2017 6:21:31 PM PST by WENDLE (5000 BIKERS FOR TRUMP GOING TO MARSHALL PARK!! Like your TEETH?)
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To: ColdOne

Did the two timing gigolo toss any medals again?


10 posted on 01/15/2017 6:22:53 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: ColdOne
The tall, young, erudite Yale graduate stood out among veterans and his devastating testimony before a Senate committee in 1971 sealed his celebrity.

He stood out as a bald faced liar.

11 posted on 01/15/2017 6:23:53 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Do you guys really believe this story?”

I work in Hollywood. We produce BS everyday and this spec script isn’t worth wiping my ass.


12 posted on 01/15/2017 6:24:04 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: ColdOne
They misspelt “Ally” in the headline.
13 posted on 01/15/2017 6:24:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: WENDLE

Traitors then. Traitors now.


14 posted on 01/15/2017 6:24:29 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Parmy

I understand his TOTAL time in service in Vietnam was only 922 days before running back to Boston to the work with the Senator there for re-election.

And several of those 92 days were leave, R&R, training and indoctrination.

True?


15 posted on 01/15/2017 6:24:43 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: ColdOne

And Yahoo actually believes this.


16 posted on 01/15/2017 6:24:51 PM PST by Da Coyote
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Viet Cong veteran Vo Ban Tam remembers the first time he crossed paths with John Kerry on the banks on the Bay Hap river, a day that ended in bloodshed.

From the article:

Kerry locked eyes with Ban Tam and said “Yes - that’s him. Those slant eyes are seared in my memory.”

Ban Tam stared back, and through his interpreter said “I would know those round eyes anywhere - they are seared in my memory.”
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jk


17 posted on 01/15/2017 6:25:14 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

92 days!


18 posted on 01/15/2017 6:25:23 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: ColdOne



19 posted on 01/15/2017 6:25:40 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: max americana

No kidding...I was at least hoping to read “and the farmer pulled out a machete and...”


20 posted on 01/15/2017 6:26:02 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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