From my e-mail this morning. Russ Gorman is a RAdm in the Navy. This was forwarded to me by an SF officer.
Army Times is a weekly newspaper that is distributed to every Army unit worldwide and is sold in every PX and snack bar. All officers and NCO's and many privates read it regularly.
This is from the Sept. 6 edition.
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Don't know if you had seen this, but here is one example of the ire that Kerry has brought out from Viet Nam vet's.
Russ Gorman
Wounded Vet Buys Full Page Of Army Times
This gentleman felt so strongly about this that he paid for a full page ad
in the Sept 6th Edition of the Army Times. By Dexter Lehtinen, an Army
paratrooper and Ranger, severely wounded in 1971 while a reconnaissance
platoon leader in Vietnam. He later graduated first in his class from
Stanford Law School and later served as a Florida State Senator and the
United States Attorney in Miami.
Here is his Full Page Advertisement: John Kerry & Vietnam THE WOUNDS THAT
NEVER HEAL
In 1971, I awakened after three days of unconsciousness aboard a hospital
ship off the coast of Vietnam. I could not see, my jaws were wired shut, and
my left cheekbone was missing, a gaping hole in its place. Later, while
still in that condition at St Albans Naval Hospital, one of my earliest
recollections was hearing of John Kerrys testimony before Congress.
I remember lying there, in disbelief, as I learned how Kerry told the world
that I served in an Army reminiscent of Genghis Khans; that officers like me
routinely let their men plunder villages and rape villagers at will; that
"war crimes" committed in Vietnam by my fellow soldiers "were not isolated
incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness
of officers at all levels of command."
Then Kerry went to Paris, meeting with the North Vietnamese enemy officials,
all while our soldiers still fought in the field. The pain and disbelief I
felt listening to his words went deeper than the pain I felt from the enemy
fire which seriously wounded my face. Eighteen months later I was discharged
from the hospital, the wounds inflicted by the enemy fully healed. But more
than 30 years later, the wounds inflicted by John Kerry continue to bring
pain to scores of Vietnam veterans. Those wounds--the bearing of false
witness against me and a generation of courageous young Americans who fought
and died in Vietnam--are much more serious than any wound warranting a
Purple Heart. Those wounds go to the heart and soul. Those wounds never go
away.
Today, my son is a Marine Corps weapons officer, flying the F/A 18 Hornet.
He belongs to the same Marine Corps Kerry ridiculed with his 1971 book cover
showing protestors simulating the Iwo Jima Memorial, raising an upside-down
American flag. He flies the same F/A 18 fighter jet that Kerry voted against
in the U. S. Senate. And today, Kerrys picture hangs in an honored place in
Saigons war museum, as a hero to the Vietnamese Communists.
Yet, John Kerry shamelessly drapes himself in the imagery of Vietnam,
military service and the support of veterans devoid of any media scrutiny.
Meanwhile, the criticism and disapproval of Kerry by scores of veterans
continues to fall on deaf ears. Worse yet, any legitimate criticism of
Kerrys post-war record is discredited as a "personal" attack or an attack
against his service.
John Kerry is quick to surround himself with a handful of veterans and
claims overwhelming support from the veteran community. He ignores, however,
the wounds he inflicted on millions of veterans, and he refuses to sign a
waiver to release his military personal records and medical records. This is
the portrait of a man who has failed to comes to terms with his treacherous
past.
I, Dexter Lehtinen, paid for this ad personally, without any connection to
other individuals or groups, because I want the public to know what John
Kerry did to our Vietnam veterans. |
