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Revealed: How 'War Hero' Kerry Tried To Put Off Vietnam Military Duty
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 3-7-2004
| Charles Laurence
Posted on 03/06/2004 4:39:11 PM PST by blam
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To: KQQL
Who is the guy in that picture - the next candidate for a gay marriage?
62
posted on
03/06/2004 7:50:40 PM PST
by
Main Street
(Stuck in traffic.)
To: Howlin
Oh ok ... I'll be good
63
posted on
03/06/2004 7:51:17 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
To: Main Street
That gal in the middle looks like a lezbo, but if she ain't she looks like she could outdo Linda Lovelace.
To: blam
My father didn't fight in Viet Nam, he served in Korea. He will cries when he talks about it, and he doesn't talk about it unless specifically asked.
His engineering skills saved his life when he constructed his fox hole. He dug it deeper, reinforced the top, and put extra layers on it to sheild him from incoming attacks. An incoming artillary shell exploded just above his fox hole, blowing the sheilding down onto him and knocking him unconscious. He couldn't hear for three days, and has acute tininitis to this day, but he didn't break a single bone and is alive to talk about it.
When his best friend, "Blue," was mortally wounded in a melee during the fight for Old Baldy, my father crawled through enemy fire, slung Blue's body over his shoulders, and brought him behind the lines. His uniform was so drenched in blood, he had to burn it. Blue, unfortunately, did not make it.
My father enlisted to serve, served with distinction, and never, not once in all my life, trashed our country.
By Kerry's watermark, my father is a far more suitable candidate for President than that turkey.
Aside from being certifiably smarter than 99% percent of the population, his morals are beyond reproach. I can still remember, as a young girl, driving with my father back to the supermarket because the check-out girl gave him $1.00 extra in change. He didn't want her drawer to be short, and it wasn't "his money."
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:03:36 PM PST
by
TheWriterInTexas
(With God's Grace, All Things Are Possible)
To: Mo1
Re the "..poison in the skull for vanity" - are you implying that there was botulism in that sandwich he was eating and that he was eating it to show off? I think that's Kerrying things a little too far.
To: secondamendmentkid
Ummm .. no .. My tag line is referring to the Botox he seems to be injecting into his face
67
posted on
03/06/2004 8:10:32 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
To: Old Sarge
Whoa, that's a name from the past. Nice quote though.
68
posted on
03/06/2004 8:11:55 PM PST
by
July 4th
(George W. Bush, Avenger of the Bones)
To: Mo1
I realize that! It was a joke. You are now ordered to laugh.
To: hosepipe
WHAT 3 WOUNDS ?...... I wanna know NOW... During the Gulf War, I was flying C-141 transports. At one base (King Fahd) there was an A-10 squadron that we had re-supplied and a story was making the rounds.
A squadron commander of an F-111 squadron in theater at another base had put himself in for a purple heart and silver star on the first night of the war. He wrote the paperwork and citations himself (and being the commander) submitted them. The men in the unit were outraged, and were talking of filing paperwork to thwart his--saying he did not earn the citations.
John Kerry was a the skipper of the boat. I am convinced he submitted the paperwork for this citations himself, including the silver star. I also believe his purple hearts are fraudulent and that Kerry knew full well of the "3 heart" loophole that would allow him to end his tour early. To this day--he will not release his medical or records or comment on the wounds.
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:19:21 PM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: blam
bump!
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:20:54 PM PST
by
ConservativeMan55
(You...You sit down! You've had your say and now I'll have mine!!!!)
To: secondamendmentkid
Ooooops .. Sorry about being slow on the uptake
BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... is that better??
72
posted on
03/06/2004 8:21:28 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
To: SkyPilot
The medical records may be private but I don't believe the recommendation would be. Where are those records kept? Who were the members of his crew? Will Tom Brokejaw, Pencildick Jennings, etc. attempt to find and interview them re the cause and nature of his wounds and alleged heroics? Of course not! But the election is not about the past, it's about the future and where these two candidates will lead us. During the Bush Administration the courts have moved to the deep left field bleachers. Imagine their location in the Kerry Administration when he appoints leftwing judges uncontested by wimp candyass Republicans in Congress.
To: Mo1
I think that was a mocking laugh - just the kind I wanted. :-)
To: blam; dighton; general_re; BlueLancer
Bumpez vous!
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:33:27 PM PST
by
aculeus
To: blam
Does anyone know how many months Kerry was in Vietnam? I know he grabbed the brass ring when received a third Purple Heart but I though I heard it said he was only there like 4 months. In my job I review service medical records all day long on veterans, many of whom are Vietnam veterans. I have yet to see anyone with 3 Purple Hearts, including front line infantry with 2 full year long tours in country. I sure hope he releases his records so we can at least know how bad the injuries were so we can make up our own minds just how big a hero he really is.
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:33:34 PM PST
by
TonyM
To: TonyM
There has been much talk by some of the press about how badly the Bush campaign has handled issues like the AWOL charge and that the White House did not even talk to people who said they were willing to confirm Bush's presence at some of the meetings in Alabama. Is it at all possible that the White House DELIBERATELY kept this issue in the press so that when they start talking about demanding Kerry's records for his purple hearts etc., the public will remember the long outcry over Bush's records. In other words was the Bush team's "fumbling" of this issue actually an example of long term strategery?
To: secondamendmentkid
At the time he got out of the military, service records, including service medical records, we transferred to National Personel Records Center in St. Louis MO. Each branch of the service maintains their records archived there. They stay there unless the veteran submits a claim for compensation to the Dept of veterans Affairs. They then send the medical records to the VA and send copies of portions of the personnel records as requested by the VA. I doubt Kerry has such a claim so his records should be there, and probably in special storage for sensitive files.
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:42:57 PM PST
by
TonyM
(E)
To: Main Street
Consider a series of facts. Kerry tried to avoid service. Failing that, he joined the navy, a branch many joined to avoid combat. He took jobs designed to avoid combat. When he landed in combat he got himself out ASAP. And the most significant fact follows:
He spent the rest of his life bragging about his heroic combat experience. Kerry has to be one of the phoniest self serving empty suits ever.
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:53:44 PM PST
by
Williams
To: TonyM
I'm still afraid of how it would go over if the Bush adminstration pushed for the release of Kerry's records. I wish a veteran's group of some sort would push for it instead of anyone in the adminstration.
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:57:59 PM PST
by
TonyM
(E)
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