Funny how the media forgets that little detail.
Posted on 05/31/2004 7:02:29 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Kerry paid a solemn early morning visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Monday, offering a quiet Memorial Day counterpoint to President Bush's tribute to the fallen across the Potomac River at Arlington National Cemetery.On a cool, misty morning, Kerry slowed walked along the black granite wedge, pausing to seek out a few names of significance to him.
Kerry visited the wall with the family of William Bronson of Gardner, Mass. Bronson died in 1976 from a seizure related to a head wound he suffered in 1968 during combat in Vietnam.
The Democratic presidential candidate worked with Bronson's family and the Navy to have Bronson's name added to the wall.
His name was recently inscribed on the memorial wall and will be officially enrolled during ceremonies later Monday.
"I'm very happy we could get this done," Kerry told Bronson's mother, Barbara, and other family members Monday. "He belongs here."
Kerry placed a wreath near Bronson's name and made the sign of the cross before pausing for a few moments of silence.
The wall is a touchstone of sorts for Kerry, who came home from Vietnam with three Purple Hearts and Silver and Bronze stars — and growing dismay at the way the war was unfolding. He soon became a leader of the anti-war movement.
A number of Kerry's close friends from decades past are among the dead whose names are etched on the memorial's polished black granite walls. It was here that Kerry brought his future wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, when he first began seeing her. They stopped to stroll along the memorial as he drove her home from a dinner party in 1994.
From Washington, Kerry was heading to Portsmouth, Va., where he was to join Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott for the city's annual Memorial Day parade. Portsmouth is home of the naval shipyard.
Just last week, the Kerry campaign signaled new interest in Republican-leaning Virginia when it announced plans to begin running TV ads in the state.
Population shifts over the past few years have made Virginia more attractive to Democrats, campaign aides say. And the campaign hopes Kerry's war record will have particular appeal along the Virginia coast, with its heavy military presence.
What kind of soulless ghouls populate the partisan press?
I guess Nancy Benac is hoping to be Kerry's press secretary if he wins.
Is John Kerry a veteran?
I think it's just a rumor.
It was here that Kerry brought his future wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, when he first began seeing her. They stopped to stroll along the memorial as he drove her home from a dinner party in 1994.
Aaaaawwww. Isn't that sweet, how touching.
He probably told her, "I'm a Vietnam veteran myself."
Bleeeech!
Did he drive there in his SUV that has the license plates "Purpleheart3"? You know, those medals he deemed not worthy of his majesty and threw away. Oh that`s right, he only threw away the ones that weren`t his. So much for showing respect to your fellow vets. I suprised they even let this pompous self absorbed traitorous mutt near that wall.
solemn? i'd be more impressed if he went there without the press to pay real PERSONAL respects, instead of POLITICAL respects.
Can you say dishonest political stunt?
Now these lefties in the media like Millbank accuse the President of a political stunt when he land on aircraft carrier to do a victory speech(these jackasses lied by the way about the cirumstances).
Meanwhile John "The Bolshievick" Kerry after 30 years ago assembling a group of liars and frauds had them give scripted wild ass, un-detailed, and easily , very easily refutable "testimony" that was useful disinformation against the US, this idiot runs down to march on Memorial Day to make himsef look good and nothing, not a peep, from any lefty reporter are you going to hear condemning this crap. I guarantee that.
I don't need this piece of human debris's tribute.
Stay Safe Kattracks !
"It was here that Kerry brought his future wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, when he first began seeing her"
Presumably while he was still married to his first wife, Julia Thorne, if I remember her name correctly.
The one's who's names Kerry is actually looking for to get a Memorial day photo op.
I guess we'll just have to take Benac's and/or the senator's word on this.
Ooooh! He's a Roman Catholic, as well as a veteran!
EXACTLY!!!
This is so Clintonesque, phony photo-ops and hypocrisy.
I'm not sure, but I think a while back he briefly mentioned that he was.
Was this shown on TV?
The reason I ask is because I am beginning to get the impression that for every event Bush does, the media is going to try to "match" it with one by Kerry.
If I didn't know better, I'd think the media is consciously trying to take the "White House advantage" away from Bush by showing Kerry doing the same kinds of things Bush does -- level the playing field, if you will.
I KNOW Kerry is trying to do that; as an example, take a look at his new plane!
Ole Horses Face and Horses Ass together in Portsmouth today.
Someone get the Clorox we need a clean up in Virginia today.
Smells like Clinton strolling on the beach at Normandy and stopping by a (cleverly prearranged), cairn of stones. Pause, drop head, chew lower lip, arrange expression to one of deep thought. Look up and walk on as if leading the world into the light. Nancy Benac learns fast.
This stunt reminds me of the Clinton visit to The D-day beach and cemetery. Arranging rocks in a cross and straightening up a flag on a grave. Both props having been prepared there for the photo-op.
These draft-dodging cowards and traitors really do know what pieces of scum they are and seek any opportunity to hide their back-stabbing history.
Go to this post to see what a fraud John Kerry is.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145155/posts
Come on, that picture of him sitting among the crowd at the ceremonies the other day made him look like just another face in the crowd, and we can't have that. Heavens, we can't have that. He has to look statesmanlike, presidential. So we'll be force fed nonsense like this by the RAT press from now until Nov. And when Bush goes to Europe, hmm, what will Kerry do then? Oh, he'll be making life miserable for those who live and do business in and around Boston. He's already said he feels our pain, though and has decided to accept the nomination at the convention...so it's all worthwhile. I wonder if he feared that the party would pull a Torricelli on him?
redrock
Yes,of the North Vietnam military!
Did TerAYsa buy him a bigger plane and paint the nose blue? She'll stop at nothing I guess. Indeed, she's already said that much. And you're right, the media will try and match each and every Bush event with one where Kerry is shown looking if at all possible, presidential. If they can't do that, they'll delete stupid Kerry utterances, so we'll just get visuals, no audio feed whatsoever.
Kerry would never have gone there during Rolling Thunder. The story didn't mention what time in the morning, but you can bet that he would not have been welcomed by most Vietnam vets. If I recall correctly, vets turned their back on Kerry when he was at the wall a few years ago.
Nancy Benac is a Democrat posing as an Associated Press writer. No more, no less.
The AP insinuates that Bush's tribute was loud and boisterous.
Only difference being when it comes to crocodile tears and play-acting emotion, John Kerry is no Bill Clinton. Fortunately.
The thing that irritates me is that they are imposing a news blackout on the President himself. He's been out talking about his plan for months, but the blackout enables the rats to claim he doesn't have a plan. At least that's what they think.
Quiet only because nobody was there. This has actually been a beautiful Memorial Day. I've been very moved... teary-eyed all Saturday, watching the dedication and missing my parents.
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JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets
http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320
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Funny how the media forgets that little detail.
And I'm sure if Kerry were president, he wouldn't go to the Tomb on Memorial Day.
I am reminded of something Clinton did also. I think he was a fundraiser or something and to make it a real emotional moment he poked himself in the eye to produce a tear to make it look good.
Frauds.
And what would that 'number' be?.... <1
It was here that Kerry brought his future wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, when he first began seeing her. They stopped to stroll along the memorial as he drove her home from a dinner party in 1994.
Great con game to work on the ketchup lady...tell his B.S. war stories to the gullible...get her all emotional then take her to see some names...(that he probably memorized earlier)...and claim he knew them or was 'in battle' with them...with them when they died...blah blah blah.....
He's a lying sack of crap ...nothing more...nothing less...
imo....
Did John Kerry go to the Veterans' Memorial in 2002 and 2003 or is this just something he does in the midst of a war in an election year?
We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those who died for the "greater glory of the United States." We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars---in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such as other organizations have recently been unable to provide. We will not take solace from the creation of monuments or the naming of parks after a select few of the thousands of dead Americans and Vietnamese. We will not uphold traditions which decorously memorialize which was base and grim.
Ignore Kerry's photo ops. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper instead.
See post #45.
JFK is a traitor. Lets take him down.
I can't wait to read the snide remarks the AP will insert on their coverage of President Bush's appearance. And I took the business about "offering a quiet Memorial Day counterpoint" as a way of saying in a subtle way how unfair that President Bush had his incumbent platform to speak from so humble old Kerry is quietly doing the best he can to say and do his own noble deeds. Bah.
Then we come to this:
The Democratic presidential candidate worked with Bronson's family and the Navy to have Bronson's name added to the wall.
His name was recently inscribed on the memorial wall and will be officially enrolled during ceremonies later Monday.
So when did Kerry start "working" to get Bronson's name added to the wall? Why wasn't he "working" on it lo these many years he's been a U.S. Senator. Why did it take being a presidential candidate to accomplish this?
In case you haven't heard .. Kerry was approached by a protester who ask if Kerry was planning to apologize for spitting on these men when he returned from Vietnam.
Of course .. only FOX has reported this.
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