Uncle, I've read a lot of your posts. When you talk about real issues concerning veterans, war tactics and the failure or successes of our civilian leadership you are well worth reading.
Whenever you write about Democrats, however, it's clear that you view them as the "enemy."
I don't know where you developed that kind of hostility, or why, but I think it blinds you to any objective discussion of the merits of such things as Kerry's medals or, with respect to your recent post on the pfp's thread, whether Obama has any "love for America."
I have plenty of disagreements with the Democrats and I understand that there were soldiers who were more deserving of medals than Kerry. (There were a whole bunch of them who were less deserving also.) But for you to ignore the information from those who were close-in eye witnesses to Kerry's actions and for you to ignore the "Nightline" report that went to the village and got the same info from the Vietnamese eye witnesses and, instead, fully accept the "facts" of those who were a long way off or not at the scene, is simply unbelievable.
I'd bet that a whole lot of those "officer" medals of the men who blasted Kerry could be much more easily challenged but the point is, who cares? The man served, he got shot at, he shot back, his men said he was a good and gutsy officer and that should be enough to place him beyond petty criticisms concerning "how much" he "earned" them.
It is for me. Ed |
