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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (42363)	5/5/2004 9:03:31 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) of 793866

I think the subject of VN has come up and won't go away now. It's about time for the vets to start unloading some of their memories and the recent CNN interview of the vets on Kerry could start the flood. I think you have made a very insightful point. Vietnam Vets got shot at in combat, got spat on by American demonstrators when they came home and got shit on by Kerry and the "Winter Soldiers". Many used the GI bill to attend college. I did too using night school and the bootstrap program for active duty folks. I never told anyone in college that I was a nam vet much less that I was on active duty and a Special Forces Officer. I know many other SF Officers and other nam vets who say the same thing. At parties when asked about nam, I always say I really enjoyed my tours there. My wife heard me say that once and later told me I can't tell her friends that. That generated months of (probably) long overdue discussions about the nitty gritty of my job. The nam was not just about Recon, Combat, Killing and Dying. For me it included all of that but it was also about building schools, getting supplies to clinics, etc. The media still talks about destroying villages. They never told about the villages we built. The water supplies we provided with wells, cisterns and aquaducts. They don't know about my friend who at Nha Trang beach saw a group of Vietnamese drag an apparently dead young girl from the surf. We were manning a machine gun on top of the IDC bunker across from IFFV HQ at the time. He looked at me and asked if I want to help or should he. I told him go ahead, you spotted her. I got your back. He ran down the beach, swished the vomit out of her mouth and gave the girl mouth-to-mouth while I called for an ambulance. The girl was breathing on her own when the medics arrived. There are so many wonderful nam stories that never got told. There are so many nam vets who hid their service after returning so as not incur a hassle from American civilians. Guys like Kerry who abandoned his men and vessel in combat and then lied and lied and lied, and his phony wannabee lyingass non-vets stole the spotlight that these men deserved. I think you are right HH. John F Kerry has awakened the Vietnam Veteran community. But this time he has the real Vets not the phonies in Detroit. His own combat unit made a clear statement yesterday. Every American war Veteran will have to consider their statements. Every Vietnam Veteran is now (finally) going to feel free to tell his personal story and it will not be about the torture, murder, and mutilation that Kerry testified and lied about before congress in 71. uw

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