The pompous, fake, immoral, untruthful, hypocritical, and greedy Mr. Kerry
I received the letter below and concur with it 110%. My name is Patrick T Brennan and I served as a 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry Division in 1968 along the DMZ, and later North of Saigon in Tay Ninh province. The 1st Cav was a large American Division which fought the regular forces of North Vietnam. My particular artillery group seldom came in contact with Vietnamese civilians and I wanted to learn more about the people and the country so I volunteered to become a Ruff Puff, which was the slang name given to the newly formed Regional Force - Popular Forces. After some intense training we were broken into five man units and sent to remote villages where American Forces had never been. Our mission was to protect the villagers from the savage and cruel treatment they recieved from their Communist cousins from the North and to provide medical aid and comfort wherever we could. These villages were often raided by sappers (today we'd call them suicide bombers) and hit and run units from the mountains to our West. We were treated as heroes by the villagers and quite often saved them from being decimated by the North Vietnamese.
When I returned to the United States and blended back into society I remember seeing newspaper articles showing Hanoi Jane giggling and cavorting with her friends in North Vietnam while our POWs were being tortured in their prisons. I wanted to puke when I heard the testimony of (I didn't know who he was at the time) John Kerry. I didn't mind people protesting the war, after all this is a free country, but to tell the lies I heard and denegrate the really brave soldiers I knew, was a slam in the face to all those who were really wounded, and those who gave their lives for the people of South Vietnam. Its beyond lying its treason. John kerry wasn't in Vietnam long enough to get a suntan and yet he earned medals faster than Audy Murphy. I would love to see him open his records so we could see who recommended him for his medals and see the severity of his so called wounds. I think he'd be too embarrassed to do that. By the way he threw his medals away, or at least pretended to. There are no mulligans, no take backs, he has no medals! This guy cannot be the President of the United States.
Patrick T Brennan
this was the letter below i believe we posted on this thread a week ago. Patrick Brennan is a brother in law of someone who i distributed the note to and his response.. fyi
Open Letter to John Kerry:
My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the recovery is terribly painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they had to cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking about the
pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time in the same wound, makes me cringe. That experience, however pales in comparison to what I am going through right now, in my heart.
The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by fellow citizens, and their leader stirring them up, are breaking my heart again. I am being cut in the same scar. How did we who served in Vietnam suddenly become cold-blooded killers, torturers, and rapists, of the ilk of the Nazi SS or the Taliban?
Most of us were American soldiers who grew up idolizing John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and all the other heroes. That was why I volunteered. But for political expediency, John Kerry has rewritten history, again. After spending only four months in the country of Vietnam, John Kerry testified before Congress in 1971 with these exact words about incidents he supposedly witnessed or heard about from other vets:
"They personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable
telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown
up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for
fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
I was a green beret officer who volunteered for duty in Vietnam and fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969 on a Special Forces A-team on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We were the elite. We saw the most action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just kill people, we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out soap, food, and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, Baghdad, Saigon, and everywhere American soldiers ever served. We all gave away our candy bars and rations to kids and our hearts to oppressed people all over the globe.
My children and grandchildren could read your words, and think those horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bold-faced, unprincipled liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all my fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I saw none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an army officer, it was my obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there not a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or having the perpetrators arrested?
The answer is simple. You are a liar. Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Senator Kerry, to bypass character, integrity, and morality. I earn my green beret over and over daily in all aspects of my life.
Eight National Guard green berets, and other National Guard soldiers, have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you totally dishonored their widows and families by lumping National Guard service in with being a draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deserter, just so you can try to sabotage the patriotism of our President who proudly served as an Air National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his green beret at Fort Bragg right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air National Guard, just like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her as I am my son. I volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem whatsoever with President Bush being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud of him as our leader.
John Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human rights Bill, HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote, and thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribes people in Vietnam died since then who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POW's, when you held those reins in Congress.
You have fought tooth and nail to push for the US to normalize relations with Vietnam for years.
Why, Mr. Kerry? Simple, your first cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO, of Colliers International, recently signed a contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of dollars for Collier's International to become the exclusive real estate representative for the country of Vietnam.
"Hanoi John," now that it works for you, you beat your chest about your Vietnam service, but to me, you are a phony, opportunistic, hypocrite. You are one of those politicians that is like a fertilizer machine: all that comes out of you is horse manure, and you are spreading it everywhere.
Medals do not make a man. Morals do.
Don Bendell
Canon City, Colorado
Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, is a best-selling author with over 1,500,000 books in print, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in
southern Colorado.
Please pass this to every one you know.
Our Country does not need this man as President in Washington. |
