Ann rocks on Wednesday night!
Posted on 09/01/2004 2:22:15 PM PDT by hinterlander
She has a sexy attitude and she's got something between her ears.
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In a little reported story, Brit Hume said, I believe on Monday night, that another witness had come forward to state that there was NO enemy fire on March 13,1969. RD3 Leslie Lyle Vorpahl was aboard PCF-3 when it hit the mine. He IS listed on the casualty report for that day. Another little noticed item posted here on 8-26 was a Department Of The Army document listing a First Lieutenant James A. Rassmann as receiving a Purple Heart for action on March 13,1969. No mention of the WOUND. I have never heard Rassmann mention this in his ads or interviews. Interesting...
Yes. They played the conversation. Mr. Vorpahl noted that all of the injured had time to discuss the events while being transported and treated. That during those discussions, it was agreed there had been no enemy fire, other than the mine.
The Rassmann PH is interesting indeed. He could have been hurt earlier in the day, while they were ashore. But I haven't seen (not that I've looked hard) any spot report or other evidence (news articles, interviews) that describe the circumstances that justify Rassmann's PH.
It was something between, "I'd rather eat a dirt sandwich", and, "I need to rearrange my sock drawer".
OMG, here's a space alien. Help
Wasn't it the Bard himself who said that unrequited love is the best kind of love? A sweet, heart-warming bitterness that fades but never truly dies.
Unfit For Command has it that Rassmann and Kerry were together earlier in the day at the rice cache incident. In Tour Of Duty, Kerry admits "getting a piece of shrapnel in my ass" from this incident. No mention of any injury to Rassmann. All I've heard Rassmann say is "bullets were hitting all around me in the water" and "the Viet Cong were shooting at ME". No mention of a wound. If he were truly wounded, would it not be more dramatic to have Kerry pull a wounded Rassmann from the river?
I wonder how she'd look if she packed on about 10 lbs.
So why the "V" on his original DD214 separation document and his corrected DD215 doc? And since he knows what's on those separation documents because he signed them, why did he not question the non-existance of such an award, and why is he not wearing it on his ribbon in the Post #18 photo?
This is the medal issue that's really starting to tick me off, not to dismiss the booboo PH. But to wear the Silver Star means gallantry and valor in combat. It's supposed to be the third highest medal with the MOH tops. Hate to see them handed out like candy for shooting one injured fleeing enemy, and then the claim "V" device that doesn't exist for that medal. Who the hell wrote up those separation docs and where are the authorizing personell who signed them? End rant!
"John Kerry is a true patriot and all people of Vietnam support him totally and look forward to reuniting with him in the White House."
His Excellency Mr. Vo Van Kiet Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Well, maybe this wasn't a published report but I am sure that the Communists consider John Kerry a hero of their cause.
The following is an article from (VNS) "Vietnam News Service" saying how helpful John Kerry was in telling about "atrocities"
Friday June 11, 2004
VIETNAM NEWS
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-06/10/Stories/16.htm
US prisoners share some smiles and a game of chess.— VNS File photos
Invoking Viet Nam to cover up Iraq abuses
The Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal calls forth questions over the American War in Viet Nam: "How were captured US troops treated?" and "How did the Americans treat the Vietnamese?"
Diem Quynh
The Voice of America has attempted to deflect criticism of American soldiers’ treatment of Iraqi prisoners by claiming recently that captured US troops were treated worse in Viet Nam.
Besides begging the fundamental question "what were the Americans doing in Viet Nam in the first place?" the claim is also patently false.
In fact, like in any of the dozens of countries they invaded, it was the Americans who perpetrated well-documented atrocities in Viet Nam, both at the individual and mass levels.
American POWs treat themselves to a refreshing game of volleyball.
My Lai is a byword for callous mass murder while the Bach Mai hospital and Kham Thien street bombings, though less well-known outside Viet Nam, were no less brutal for their manner of execution. As if to show they were not merely capable of ‘impersonal’ atrocities (by dropping bombs), the Americans helped run the notorious Con Dao prison with its ‘tiger cages’. In each of these 3m by 1.5m cages, they held five Vietnamese prisoners.
Conditions at the prison prompted a visiting US legislator, William R Anderson, to write to then-president Richard Nixon slamming the human rights violations and asking him to reconsider American involvement in the south of Viet Nam.
Candidate in this year’s American presidential elections, John Kerry, who fought in the war, went further in his criticism. In a statement to the US’ Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971, he said the war crimes committed by US soldiers in Southeast Asia "were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."
But despite these abuses, the Vietnamese did not reciprocate in kind; instead, they treated captured US troops humanely.
A letter written to his family by the US navy’s Lt Stephen Anthony Rudloff shows a glimpse of the treatment received by American troops in captivity. He wrote, "Since my capture, I have been treated very well by the people of the DRVN [Democratic Republic of Viet Nam]. I am well fed, have had my injuries tended to by a doctor, and am in excellent condition."
Another navy man, Lt Albert Molinare, wrote home, "my treatment and the treatment of all the others I’ve talked to has been very fair. I feel we’re eating and living better than many Vietnamese outside the walls. I live with a group of other prisoners and we pass the time playing bridge and pingpong and doing some gardening. It’s nothing like home of course but the treatment has been a pleasant surprise."
Molinare was right that the detainees were living better than most Vietnamese who were subsisting on food rations and under extremely tough conditions.
It was also true that except for their incarceration, the American soldiers lived normal lives in prison though many of them had been caught red-handed committing crimes against humanity. They got fairly good food, exercised, played on the guitar and read books, received letters from home and celebrated Christmas with trees just like they would have at home.
They received periodic medical checks and treatment for injuries and illnesses.
In the three decades since the war, the Americans have used their hegemony over the world media – including films – and short public memory to gloss over their atrocities and to demonise Viet Nam.
The VOA report is merely another such attempt. — VNS
Ann rocks on Wednesday night!
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What kind of adult indeed? Certainly not the kind that should be in any position of authority!
Wow! Great and real-time research!
It didn't. Was mentioned on one of the threads.
Go to Google, type "delete button" post kerry into the search field. The first link will be to the WP article/quote in question.
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