Posted on 02/27/2008 5:29:51 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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What an amazing story.
Don't tell John Kerry
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) Compares Guard Service To Draft-Dodging. “‘If people went to Canada, if people opposed the war, if people chose to be in the Guard, that’s their choice, and I’ve never raised that in an issue,’ he said.” (Noelle Straub, “Kerry Presents Himself As GOP’s Worst Nightmare,” Boston Herald, 2/3/04)
Kerry Repeats Insult Of Guard. “‘I’ve never made any judgments about any choice somebody made about avoiding the draft, about going to Canada, going to jail, being a conscientious objector, going into the National Guard,’ Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, told Fox News Channel. ‘Those are choices people make.’” (Nick Anderson, “Buoyant Kerry Embraces Role Of Frontrunner,” Los Angeles Times, 2/4/04)
DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe Says National Guard Service Not Part of Military. “George Bush never served in our military and our country.” (ABC’s “This Week,” 2/1/04)
A bit different. Vietnam was the only war of the last century where the Guard wasn't used so it was a haven for those wanting to avoid getting shot at.
Au contrair - many Guard units were activated and sent to Vietnam...
A grateful nation says, “Thank You Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble. Rest In Peace.”
Somebody kept them out of the Nam ~ made it an attractive place for folks who didn't wish to go to war, and only a fool would argue that the Guard during the Nam was heroic.
Save your umbridge for something else.
Not according to the Reserve Officer's Association. Link.
But the NCAA won’t allow the name “Fighting Sioux”.
You should read your own link.
It gives a detasiled listing of what National Guard units were deployed to Viet Nam and where they were deployed to.
...”Hawkins said 83 grenade fragments were removed from Keeble’s body, but several others remained. “You could tell that the wounds bothered him sometimes, but he never complained. Sagami wrote in his statement that Keeble did not complain on the battlefield either. “At no time did he allow himself to be evacuated during the course of the day. Only after the unit was in defensive positions for the night did he allow himself to be evacuated.”
Compare MSG Keeble’s story to that of the 2004 democrat party nominee for President, the odious John Forbes Kerry. It makes me want to puke when I think how far America has fallen that she would allow the likes of Kerry to even be a Senator, much less run for President.
This piece should be sent to every newspaper in the USA so the anti-American leftists can read about a real American hero, not a phony POS like Kerry. But, they would not reprint it because they are too busy carrying water for another leftwing elitist fraud, Barack Hussein Obama.
IIRC, President Bush volunteered for Vietnam service in the Air Guard, did he not? http://instapundit.com/archives/018057.php
Yep, all 8 of them. Is that your definition of 'a lot'?
Makes you wonder what Sgt. Keeble thought of that?
May you rest in peace.
The whole COUNTRY should be proud of him!
Ping!
Did you even read your link????
For the Army Reserve forty-two Army Reserve units were recalled of which 35 were sent overseas
On May 13, 1968, 12,234 Army National Guardsmen in 20 units from 17 states were mobilized for service during the Vietnam War.
Air Force reservists were recalled twice in 1968, in January and again in May. In the first instance, two military airlift wings, five groups, and an aerospace rescue and recovery squadron were ordered to active duty on January 26. On May 13, operational elements of a tactical airlift group, including three aerial port squadrons, a medical service squadron, and an aero medical evacuation squadron were recalled
Air reservists alone undertook nearly 1,250 such missions [missions during their annual two week training duty] during the war.
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