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I always wonder whether people like you believe that the vets who gave this testimony, honorably discharged soldiers, many of them highly decorated, should have lied, or covered up, remain silent, or what?
Remember what country we live in.
"...I don't want to get into the game of saying I represent everybody over there, but let me try to say as straightforwardly as I can, we had an advertisement, ran full page, to show you what the troops read. It ran in Playboy and the response to it within two and a half weeks from Vietnam was 1,200 members. We received initially about 50 to 80 letters a day from troops... Some of these letters ... are very, very moving, some of them written by hospital corpsmen on things, on casualty report sheets which say, you know, "Get us out of here." "You are the only hope he have got." "You have got to get us back; it is crazy." We received recently 80 members of the 101st Airborne signed up in one letter. Forty members from a helicopter assault squadron, crash and rescue mission signed up in another one."
Just browse the testimony of the veterans. That's what Kerry was reporting. And tell me which information should have been left unsaid. |
