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Hanoi John
Unknown | Don Bendell

Posted on 02/23/2004 4:37:22 PM PST by cateizgr8

My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the recovery is terribly painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they had to cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking about the pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time in the same wound, makes me cringe. That experience, however pales in comparison to what I am going through right now, in my heart.

The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by fellow citizens, and their leader stirring them up, are breaking my heart again. I am being cut in the same scar. How did we who served in Vietnam suddenly become cold-blooded killers, torturers, and rapists, of the ilk of the Nazi SS or the Taliban? Most of us were American soldiers who grew up idolizing John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and all the other heroes. That was why I volunteered. But for political expediency, John Kerry has rewritten history, again. After spending only four months in the country of Vietnam, John Kerry testified before Congress in 1971 with these exact words about incidents he supposedly witnessed or heard about from other vets: "They personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blew up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."

I was a green beret officer who volunteered for duty in Vietnam and fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969 on a Special Forces A-team on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We were the elite. We saw the most action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just kill people, we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out soap, food, and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, Baghdad, Saigon, and everywhere American soldiers have ever served. We all gave away our candy bars and rations to kids; our hearts to oppressed people all over the globe.

My children and grandchildren could read your words, and think those horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bold-faced, unprincipled liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all my fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I saw none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an Army officer, it was my obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there not a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or having the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a liar. Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Senator Kerry, to bypass character, integrity, and morality. I earn my green beret over and over daily in all aspects of my life.

Eight National Guard green berets, and other National Guard soldiers, have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you totally dishonored their widows and families by lumping National Guard service in with being a draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deserter, just so you can try to sabotage the patriotism of our President who proudly served as an Air National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his green beret at Fort Bragg right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air National Guard, just like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her as I am my son. I volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem whatsoever with President Bush being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud of him as our leader.

John Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human rights Bill, HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote, and thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribespeople in Vietnam died since then who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POW's, when you held those reins in Congress. You have fought tooth and nail to push for the US to normalize relations with Vietnam for years. Why, Mr. Kerry? Simple, your first cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO, of Colliers International, recently signed a contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of dollars for Collier's International to become the exclusive real estate representative for the country of Vietnam.

"Hanoi John," now that it works for you, you beat your chest about your Vietnam service, but to me, you are a phony, opportunistic hypocrite. You are one of those politicians that is like a fertilizer machine: all that comes out of you is horse manure, and you are spreading it everywhere.

Medals do not make a man. Morals do.

Don Bendell Canon City,Colorado

Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, is a best-selling author with over 1,500,000 books in print, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southernColorado.


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2004; hanoijohn; kerry; ohnopostedagain

1 posted on 02/23/2004 4:37:22 PM PST by cateizgr8
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2 posted on 02/23/2004 4:39:10 PM PST by sport
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3 posted on 02/23/2004 4:40:46 PM PST by cmsgop ( HAS ANYONE SEEN Spalding Grey ??)
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4 posted on 02/23/2004 4:43:06 PM PST by W04Man (Bush2004 Grassroots Campaign visit W-04.com for FREE STICKERS)
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To: cateizgr8
Someone forwarded this email to me. I agree with this gentleman completely.
5 posted on 02/23/2004 4:44:47 PM PST by waRNmother.armyboots
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6 posted on 02/23/2004 4:45:45 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Not Fonda Kerry")
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To: cateizgr8
Excellent read.
7 posted on 02/23/2004 4:48:39 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: cateizgr8
Heir (or Comrade) Kerry better be glad he isn't in the Armed Forces anymore. Some of his testimoney stated he saw the incidents and there are intications he said he participated in it. Since he did nothing to stop it, I would arrest him under several ariticles of UCMJ and have his traitorous, lying, National Socialist, terrorist loving beeehind looking at the inside of Levenworth Prison (either the federal one or the military one) for LIFE.

And hey, Jonny F'ing Kerry, I'm active military... since you say no one but a vet is allowed to speak on this... Guess what, I'm speaking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and thanks for voting AGAINST the M1 Abrams tank (re: the best tank in the world!!!). Since it is the vehicle I command and one that has seen me through 7 years of commissioned service, you voting against it is just one more in a long list of why I think you, Mr Kerry, are not fit even to be city dog catcher (apologies to dog catchers) let alone President of the USA.
8 posted on 02/23/2004 4:57:02 PM PST by M1Tanker (Modern "progressive" liberalism is just NAZIism without the "twisted cross")
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To: cateizgr8
Medals do not make a man. Morals do.

It has never been said better Don, way to go!

9 posted on 02/23/2004 5:12:08 PM PST by VOYAGER (!)
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To: cateizgr8
Has anyone done a study of the rate of loss of people who served in Vietnam versus the losses sustained in training as a combat pilot? I'll bet W was in more danger every time he climbed into the cockpit than Kerry ever was.
10 posted on 02/23/2004 5:21:26 PM PST by Defiant ( (*)( ) We would like to apologize for the preceding unintentional font malfunction.)
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Actually, The President probably was in more danger, statisically. I think he flew Delta Daggers. Anyways, they were old intercepters designed to fly fast and furious (but were not all weather aircraft, but interceptors don't have a choice when to fly)... and were old then, but they were the best we had until the F-4 and later the F-15 came along to intercept bombers at 3am, in any weather.
11 posted on 02/23/2004 5:31:58 PM PST by M1Tanker (Modern "progressive" liberalism is just NAZIism without the "twisted cross")
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I don't know what a Delta Dagger is, but my recollection is that he was flying an F-102, but by the time he learned how to fly, they were phasing them out, and he never saw combat. If he had finished his training 6 months earlier, he would have gone to Vietnam. I think Steyn had a column with this information in it.
12 posted on 02/23/2004 6:08:38 PM PST by Defiant ( (*)( ) We would like to apologize for the preceding unintentional font malfunction.)
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To: Defiant
Delta Dagger was the name given to the F-102. :)
13 posted on 02/23/2004 6:11:21 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: cateizgr8
I think all of us would do well to investigate connections between Senator Kerry and one Tom Hayden, former husband of Jane Fonda and founder of the SDS.

The allusions to Jane Fonda's offenses are sensational, but not useful. She was a tool. Hayden was the one wielding the tools.

He was one of the most important people in "The Movement" at the time. An ambitious climber like Kerry would certainly have sought him out.
14 posted on 02/23/2004 6:19:26 PM PST by motor_racer
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To: cateizgr8
Don Bendell, from his website here.
15 posted on 02/23/2004 6:22:40 PM PST by jigsaw (Liberal Bias is Dishonorable Discharge.)
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Further note: Don Bendell takes credit for his above editorial, has it printed
on his website, and gives permission that it be copied and reproduced.
16 posted on 02/23/2004 6:30:15 PM PST by jigsaw (Liberal Bias is Dishonorable Discharge.)
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To: cateizgr8
If you are Don Bendell or know him, I would like permission to reprint this on my site... It is an eye opener. You can respond here, or freemail or webmaster@nojohnkerry.org

Thank You,

And keep the faith... Americans Know that Vietnam Vets are patriots of the highest order and deserve a salute... NEVER what they got. Shame was not Vietnam... shame was people like John Kerry making our vets feel they way we do.. shame was the way our politicians refused to fight that war properly.

*Salute*

17 posted on 02/23/2004 6:50:18 PM PST by wadeintothem (www.NoJohnKerry.org - Stop Hanoi John!)
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To: cateizgr8
I think Kerry's got "A Problem" with this "Issue" (which may explain why the Demonrats are shrieking so loudly about Kerry's "War Record").

Clinton turned tail and ran away from military service - but Kerry actually knifed his buddies in the back.

18 posted on 02/23/2004 10:48:19 PM PST by fire_eye
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To: Britton J Wingfield
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19 posted on 02/24/2004 7:31:26 AM PST by cateizgr8
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