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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (19920)	10/18/2004 3:05:06 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27181

I am a non-credentialed Vietnam Veteran. I spent the year of May 1969-May 1970 serving my country as a Department of the Army Civilian. My job was that of Secretary to the United States Army, Vietnam G3 Plans and Operations. I lived in Long Binh, RVN. I worked a schedule of 10/7 because the Guys in the bush didn’t ever get a day off. Should things be different in Garrison? Why did I volunteereven women are patriotic and want the privilege of serving their country. I did not do it for a rewardI did it because for the past two hundred years my family has participated in securing and protecting the freedom of all Americans and our country. One early morning, I was walking to work with a Major in the US Army. We were taking a shortcut through a field when we heard incoming. We both fell to the ground and covered our headsas if that would help if our time were up. Shaken, scratched, and bleeding from the earth pitted in our skin from the rocket landing in the field, we cautiously uncovered our heads. Quite calmly, Ron turned to me and said: "I don’t know about you but I’m going back to my hooch and have two martinis and start this day over right." I thought this was an excellent idea and we were only one hour late for work. Do you suppose our experience qualified Ron for a "Purple Heart?" Ron died several months later when it was his turn to serve six months in the bush. He was an honorable man who never got to see his children grow up! When I had time off, I spent most of it at the 24th Evacuation Hospital at Plantation talking and writing letters home for GI’s. It was my privilege! Many of those same soldiers never came home. They are on the Wall. They never had a chance to decide if the war was right or wrong. May God deliver us from all the self-serving john kerrys who have exploited a tragedy for personal and political gain. Sincerely, Sue Price Parris DOD Civilian June 1964-September 2001

To: redfish who wrote (19920)	10/18/2004 3:16:46 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 27181

Veteran Files Suit in Anti-Kerry Film Mon Oct 18,10:37 AM ET story.news.yahoo.com Movies - AP By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA - A Vietnam veteran shown in a documentary criticizing Sen. John Kerry's anti-war activities filed a libel lawsuit against the movie's director Monday, saying the film falsely calls him a fraud and a liar. Kenneth J. Campbell, now a professor at the University of Delaware, said in the suit that "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" combines footage of him appearing at a 1971 war protest with narration that claims that many of the supposed veterans who took part in the event were later "discovered as frauds" who "never set foot on the battlefield, or left the comfort of the States, or even served in uniform." The suit said viewers would be left with the perception that Campbell had lied about his military service. Campbell attached copies of his military records to the suit, showing that he received the Purple Heart medal and eight other medals, ribbons and decorations for his service as an artillery forward observer in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969. The suit names the film's producer, Carlton Sherwood, and his company, Red White and Blue Productions, as defendants. "The defendants' malicious, reckless and scandalous misrepresentations and falselight presentations of Dr. Campbell were done with the specific intent to defame Dr. Campbell and place him in a false light, and with a reckless and outrageous disregard for the truth," Campbell's attorney wrote in the lawsuit. Campbell's lawyer also threatened legal action against the Sinclair Broadcast Group, an owner of 62 television stations that has announced that it intends to pre-empt regular program to broadcast "Stolen Honor" two weeks before the election.

To: redfish who wrote (19920)	10/18/2004 4:06:30 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 27181

My name is Bob Jones and my aunt served in Nam. She hates John Kerry because he likes queers, black people, Catholics, mezkins and jews and got all the POW's tortured. Kerry is a traitor. He faked all his medals. But George Bush was a war hero. Kerry is a traitor just like that Colin Powell and McCain. Let's take back this country for real American white people. LOL (Prolife seems to think that quoting far rightwing vets means anything. It's really just Bush trying to avoid 2004 issues, especially Iraq, by waging a dishonest smear campaign trying to blame the loss of the Vietnam war on Kerry. What a joke. Nixon and Colson already apologized to Kerry. And McNamara apologized to the country.)