Posted on 05/15/2004 3:13:53 PM PDT by Deacon_m
Are they valid? Origin? Anything with a "pass it on" is always suspect.
PING!!!
hmmm,
Do you all think this (first letter at least) could backfire?
I mean, after all, if the Kerry camp wanted to get dirty, couldn't they make a point that President Bush used his family's political influence to get into the National Guard to avoid going to Vietnam? And then further the point that Bush didn't show up for a physical?
I mean, any allegation that Kerry's purple hearts might not be fully deserved and that he took advantage of any injuries to come home seem a little petty next to a man who did everything possible to stay out of Nam in the first place.
Neither can compare to the "Greatest Generation" who fought WWII.
LOL Bring Back the Draft...
I smell potential ozone.
Thousands of American kids joined the reserves.
Bush Sr. had little if any influence at the time of Dubya's enrolling in the national guard.
Dubya was trained as a fighter pilot, and tried to volunteer to go to Vietnam in that capacity.
The aircraft Dubya trained on was deemed obsolete, and rather than spend more money training someone that was leaving the service, the NG released him a bit early.
Go TROLL elsewhere, or I'll sic the Viking Kitties on you.
meow
As far as I'm concerned, Kerry's purple hearts were NOT fully deserved. The fact that he got them is not the same as fully deserved. What I've heard from his commanding officers is that they wanted him out of country because he was so bad.
Your trolling will not work here.
Re the 2nd letter...http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/reynolds.asp
This account has been banned or suspended.
Dang you work fast! I wanted to ping the kitties here after watching her make a fool of herself.
Perhaps next time.......
Does Kerry belong to either the American Legion or the VFW? or any other veterans organisation?
Welcome to Free Republic.
Well, he certainly won't be joining the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth". :=)
Copied and forwarded ...
LETTERS @ GOHOTSPRINGS.COM
I don't quite know how to ask this, but we are trying to start a weekly show where we will read letters from the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the surrounding areas that are in harms way. - this will include the Marines in the Horn of Africa and even in Haiti! From anywhere and everywhere!
We are NOT going to be doing a politically bent show for one side or the other, nor do we wish to air any information where our enemies can garner intelligence.
What we are looking for are what the major media would consider as 'mundane', 'boring', 'un-newsworthy' - We want the day to day reality of life. The trips to the local orphanages - helping rebuild a school - washing desert 'cammies' in a mud hole - a quiet day of solitude - an impromptu guitar song-fest in the desert.
All those little items of information that are sent home - we want to share with as many people as we can so they can 'relate' to our military. To let them know that these are our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, friends .... not just nameless numbers or ratings. Let us see and possibly feel part of their lives.
We will not divulge last names nor address information - locations will be general - NO unit designations other than Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine.
I have been posting these short letters to several news sites and the response from people has been tremendous. The American people want to KNOW their protectors!
If you want to narrate a story on the radio, we can set that up also (with the same restrictions to names, etc).
Please send your emails, stories, questions to me at:
letters @ gohotsprings.com
ps ... reports of all the heroics will be given special attention. We don't need a saga - so far the most popular letters have been the "short notes home" to Mom, Dad, etc.
Bring our military to life - to honor - to America.
I ask that you forward this letter to everyone you know that has a son, brother, daughter, sister, or friend in the military
Carl L. Steplock III
Hot Springs, AR 71901
http://focus.gohotsprings.com
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan
You got that right.
Those leftist scums just couldn't leave it at, "Yes it is true"
They just had to add the lies from the opposing viewpoint - I'm sure they have the opposing viewpoints from concervative Christians on their pro-communist/homosexual stories, don't they?
Forwarding!!!!
*smack!*
consider yourself "biff-baffed" for not pinging me to this.
ping
see that the usual suspects get this, 'k?
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