Some Vietnam Vets For Kerry share some insights...fyi...
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Posted: Mar 6 2004, 08:27 PM
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Well Major, I finally stumbled in here. Reminds me of how long it took me to stumble into the local VFW once I got back to the world. And, what's the last thing I read? ---------
"If the veterans of Vietnam, as they quietly file into the hall of American politics, help eject the politics of oversimplification from the room once and for all, they won't just be helping us get over Vietnam. They'll be making us better and wiser than we were before Vietnam. And thus, once again, they will be doing their country a greater service than any others of their generation ever have, or ever will."
That's exactly how I feel. We never satisfy our duty to this country, we just get blessed too live long enough to keep loving her, fighting for her, believing in her.
I've got a good feeling about this man.........both my good ones and bad ones were usually right.......I guess that's why I'm here.
Thanks for being here too.
No retreat, no surrender.
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KERRY'S TIGERS, LOUSIANA BRIGADE
~TOM~ Posted: Mar 6 2004, 11:46 PM
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I was awarded my CIB in 1970 in Chu Lai from the 196th Light Infantry Brigade HQ, I recovered my dignity with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Miami Beach in the summer of 1972.
I was never a card-carrying member of VVAW, but in that camp in Flamingo Park I saw some very quiet, very patriotic Americans.
I knew how the U.S. had trashed the Geneva Accords, and how we set up government after government in South Vietnam before I served there. I considered desertion to Canada prior to being shipped out.
What made up my mind to go was a walk along some railroad tracks with my WWII vet father. He told me "Son you do what you have to do, but if you don't go, no one will listen to what you say. If you go they will have to listen." My father is a wise man who flew a B-29 Bomber in the South Pacific. In Louisiana, as the rest of The South, family tradition and patriotism is paramount. Family honor and faith are the things that finally
drug us out of a segregated society.
I am very proud to have been a Winter Soldier, I love this country so deeply. But, if I had not had a chance to stand with VVAW, I might have carried guilt for a long time.
There are no finer men and women our age than those who served with honor in Vietnam, in my opinion. They will always be my brothers, no matter their politics, their color or their faith. I feel the same respect for troops facing gunfire for the U.S. in Iraq, and we have a duty to them to discuss our current military adventures.
I am in touch with a 34-year-old former MP who recently returned from Iraq. She has all sorts of problems, which we are working out. She did not believe we had proper cause to invade Iraq, but she feels guilty for rotating and leaving her brothers and sisters at war. I've been able to tell her of very similar circumstances in my service, and she is coming out.
If we don't discuss our wars, who will? If we don't do it now, then when?
John Kerry's service in and against the Vietnam War were the honorable acts of a Winter Soldier (called such because of the men who stayed with Gen. Washington in Valley Forge when so many left). He is a man who will back-up to you and fight. And, that brings him citizenship in The South, even though a "Yankee". That brings him respect from blue collar workers, even though born into a wealthy family.
Win or lose, I'll go down fighting beside JK. Many others are coming along because they want America to recover her respect in the world.
Peace,
Chuck "Indianhead" Reed, 4/31, 196LIB, Central Highlands, RVN 70-71
Hammond, La.
Indianhead you did the hump in the Nam Bro' and as a Brother Vietnam Combat Vet, welcome back my Vietnam Brother in arms. I marched on Washington DC with the VNVAW also Bro' and am damn proud of it. We were cannon fodder for this country for the growth of the economy and like the one Bush has going in Iraq -- "Greed" Bro', Nothing but "Greed" ! You got it Indianhead ---Time to get one of our Bro's in the Commander and Chiefs Hootch, it is our time my Brother! If Vietnam Vets and Veterans get the heck out there and register to vote and don't believe all this Hanoi John BS, and don't be jealous of his Decorations, and most of all don't follow mouthpieces that only use them for their own promotions like Sampley. You got it, if we stand together as Bro's once again, the way it should be as Vietnam Vets and Veterans from any era,. We will support our "TROOPS" that were put in harms way over lies and "GREED" by the Cowboy. Let us as Veterans show Bush the door in "2004" ! Darn good post Indianhead---really good! ~TOM~ D troop 1/1 Cav 101st Airborne Div. and Americal Div. 68-70
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Show Bush the Door, in "2004" ! Elect John Kerry President of the U.S.A. and bring back the respect, integrity, dignity, and honor, that the "SHRUB" has stripped this Country of, with his lies, fraud, greed, and manipulation for power ! A Vote for Kerry is a Vote of support for the Troop, Veteran, and every American of this Nation ! Vietnam Veteran For Kerry
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