Posted on 09/26/2004 8:40:30 PM PDT by justaboutanybody
Absolutely. My son was on that carrier and my wife and I gave up a 'tiger trip' where we were supposed to join him from Hawaii to San Diego. The fact that the Abe never made it back to Hawaii as planned, being turned back from the south of Australia to go to Iraq for the war effort, made my son and thousands of our other dedicated sailors on that ship have a severely extended 'at sea' engagement of 11 months.
that "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" message was a home coming thank you from thier commander in chief. Something well earned and quite appropriate for all those serving on board and on other returning ships after the major war effort they were participating in.
I guess, if you follow the logic of the democrat spit wadders like Kerry, we should never feel that we accomplished anything in Korea since that is still not resolved and any end of the war celebration after WWII should have waited 15 more years for the Marshall plan to be assuredly locked in.
sKerry is so inept he can't even score in a gay bar:
"It's not my fault I couldn't score. There must have been five guys for every guy there."
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.