Posted on 11/10/2004 3:35:05 PM PST by mykdsmom
My brother (Navy) and one other young man were hit by a milkshake thrown by one of those '60s commie rats. Unfortunately, many of those same rats have bathed, run for public office and been elected. They need to go!
I will be there.
From a story published today:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-11-10-vets-edit_x.htm
But that wasn't to be. During a 20-year career as an infantry officer, I came back from Vietnam twice. The first time, I detected coolness. A few years later, I returned from Vietnam again, and the reception was hostile. Hurrying to catch a plane to be rejoined with loved ones, a hippie-looking youth stepped in my path and spat right in my face and on my uniform.
Cold Heat:
Thank you for your service to our country and the same to all Viet Nam vets. WE know who the real heroes were and are - our military.
You said when you left the East Coast - you were not treated with such disrepect. I am glad to hear that. Whereabouts did you travel to? Was it, as the liberals say so disparagingly, "Flyover country"? Were you then greeted with the courtesy you deserved (I hope so).
I think we "rubes" in Flyover country knew and still know how to honor our military. I got in a screaming fight with a stepdaughter who was brain-washed by her professors (pardon the expression) about Vietnam and John Kerry. I set her straight, but am not sure she believed me.
I guess the only consolation to this continued onslaught of insults to our Viet Nam vets is that millions of us DO honor you and that fire of respect for you will burn brightly for years to come.
God Bless You.
Here's the deal on "expert witness." It's by no means the accolade this man seems to think it is . . .
One party to a lawsuit puts a witness on the stand and goes through a short litany of his education, qualifications, etc. Then the lawyer says, "I tender Dr. X as an expert in the field of whatever." The judge asks the other lawyer, "Do you wish to voir dire?" If the other lawyer says he wants to, he can quickly cross-examine the witness about his qualifications.
Here's the kicker: most lawyers do NOT want to highlight the other side's expert's qualifications. If they think he isn't going to be a particularly convincing witness, they don't bother. Even if he is, they sure as heck don't want to give him a chance to toot his own horn. If they have a real killer cross-exam, like say a conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude, they WILL voir dire and blow the guy out of the water, then object to his qualifications and ask that he NOT be accepted by the trial court as an expert.
But in 99 and 94/100ths of the cases, the other lawyer says, "No, your honor, no questions," and the expert is simply accepted by the court without any objection.
So what this fellow's bragging amounts to is that he was probably tendered by some jackleg lawyer as an expert, and the other side didn't think it worth the time to bother to object.
Some high class qualification, that.
BTW, when I was flying back from Hawaii in the summer of 1971 and changed planes in LA, I sat next to a very young soldier in uniform on the way back to Atlanta. I was 16, and he couldn't have been much older, a baby-faced, soft-spoken young man. He told me he had been spit on in the airport. He did have a couple of dirty damp spots on his uniform, and I asked the stew for a glass of water and a napkin and tidied him up. He was very upset. I spent the trip comforting him, and assuring him that those of us who had daddies who fought in WWII and granddaddies who fought in WWI were 100 percent behind him and supported him.
I suppose that the whole thing could have been a setup to flirt with me, but even then I had a pretty well developed BS detector and he seemed genuinely upset, I doubt he was that good an actor.
Thanks to John Kerry and his ilk.
bump! bump! bump!
Now we know who was conducting those early exit polls for Kerry.
Oh of course it's an urban legend - those peace-loving anti-war activists never do ANYTHING so dreadful as this.
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With these words, this man disqualifies himself from researching this issue. He is too emotionally invested in the subject.
Not to mention, and abject liar.
Of course every single one of us didn't get spit on. I didn't. But I know those that did. This is pure B.S. Vietnam vets were treated like crap.
He could not wear his uniform while home on leave and he could not talk about being a soldier. Yes, it was very bad for our military.
And the likes of FnKerry and Hanoi Jane Fonda are responsible for this mess that we have had for years and years.
Apparently this "scholar" did not collect any of his data at the San Francisco Airport.
Vets of all wars - Thanks and welcome home!
Vets of all wars - Thanks and welcome home!
Just another re-write of history from the Left.
I processed in from Vietnam at Oakland, California Army Terminal in June 1968. We had to have the Oakland Police escorting our bus, and we were told to keep our heads down and away from the windows. We were informed that the peace-loving Berkeley students were not happy with us.
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