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Did Al Gore Serve in Vietnam?
Rrghtgirl ^
| October 9, 2000
| By Carolyn Gargaro
Posted on 06/01/2010 3:20:07 PM PDT by DBCJR
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:20:07 PM PDT
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DBCJR
To: DBCJR
To: Retired Greyhound
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:23:03 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Retired Greyhound
And he spent the Christmas of 1968 in Cambodia due to President Nixon’s orders.
To: Retired Greyhound
John Kerry did what? Are you kidding??? Come on now.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:27:33 PM PDT
by
mc5cents
To: DBCJR
Yes, he did!!
. . . . .in "Special" forces.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:31:49 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
To: DBCJR
Gore was "in country" but that is about it. He was carefully sequestered from any danger.
To: mc5cents
I think Kerry mentioned his Vietnam service once or twice.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:33:08 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: DBCJR
Gore went. He may have had a short stay, and he may not have been a grunt, but he went. He deserves credit for that.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:33:37 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: DBCJR
Wasn’t Algore a “journalist”?
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:33:56 PM PDT
by
kevinm13
(Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
To: DBCJR
Not a Rocket Scientist then either...
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:34:56 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
To: skeptoid
“Fortunate Son” as sang by Credence Clearwater
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:35:22 PM PDT
by
newfreep
(Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
To: DBCJR
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:38:52 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Things are not always as they appear, ask the dog chasing the car)
To: skeptoid
I just love that photo. What idiot would stare down the barrel of a weapon. Even one unloaded as there is no magazine in it. Thus, he was not in a combat situation. He was just making pretty so he could get his political ticket punched and say he was a Vietnam veteran, military veteran. After his 5 months, daddy got his butt out of Nam.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:43:22 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(Read the Bible. It tells you clearly about these times. These days are all covered, clearly, there)
To: DBCJR
I give credit to all who served. I give respect to all that were in a combat theater. Gore was told to go and he went. A nation can not ask more than that.
Did he have the same chance as dieing as a grunt ... no. But that was not his job either.
Lets not disparage those who did go and reserve our our comments to those that claim to go but did not and those that claim awards they did not earn.
To: DBCJR
Gore also had a minder the entire time he was in Viet Nam.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:44:59 PM PDT
by
Carley
(For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: DBCJR
He was an elite "Remington Raider".
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:50:03 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: DBCJR
How could Gore have
enlisted in August '69 and been discharged in May '71? The minimum enlistment obligation for active duty then was 3 years. An early out should have got him out in May '72, not '71, a year early.
As usual, something in Goreville stinks.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:52:59 PM PDT
by
Zman516
(muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
To: Zman516
The minimum enlistment obligation for active duty then was 3 years.
I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1966 with the option for 2, 3 or 4 years. I don't know about Army enlistees, but assume they had the same choices.
My guess is the two year option stayed around as long as there was a draft.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:59:08 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Zman516
According to Wikipedia, Gore signed up for the National Guard, so his hitch was shorter.
The attack article is ill-conceived.
If Vietnam were like WWII and "everybody" went, Gore's cushy assignment would be fair game for criticism.
But given that so few of Gore's Harvard classmates went to Vietnam at all, and so many politicians of his generation had no military experience at all, Gore gets a pass on this.
Given the circumstances of the time, there's no reason why he shouldn't.
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06/01/2010 4:01:56 PM PDT
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