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While we are dismissed as dirty politics, the truth is we would be doing the very same things if Kerry were a Republican. President Bush has never had anything to do with our opposition to Kerry, and if the president makes a personal appeal to us to stop, we cannot and will not do so, because there are some things that can never be forgiven, can never be forgotten. John Kerry is one of those things.

God Bless you and your family! Thank you for writing so eloquently about this very important topic. Indeed, the one image I have - seared, seared - into my mind is Kerry sitting before the Senate trashing all veterans.

My father, a career (30 years) Marine, and I (Kerry's testimony cured shortly before I entered the Marines) watched the bulk of Kerry's testimony. My father said things that day I'd never heard come from his mouth.

In 1975 I was part of the Marine contingent that evacuated Saigon. Once we were back on the Carrier (USS Coral Sea), I was approached by a German Catholic Priest and a Nun. They needed food for a baby that had been handed to them as they got on one of our helos. As a parent, I can't even begin to image the horror of handing my child to a complete stranger so that the baby would live. The Marines of my platoon gathered up every C-Rat can of fruit we could find and helped to mash it up so that the child could eat it.

I think about that baby a great deal. I hope that she made it. I lost track of everyone once we disembarked at Subic.

We were NOT baby killers. We saved hundreds, if not thousands of children during that war. The stories of Navy Corpsmen and Army Medics Bradley entering enemy territory to care for sick kids are too numerous to mention. The anger that still resides in my heart about the things Kerry said to the Senate has been latent for some time now. Until he won the nomination, it was not something that I even felt on a regular basis. He was in Massachusetts - and I was not there. But when I understood that this man - the man who caused my father to curse, swear, and nearly destroy our TV - was selected to run for President, the floodgates opened.

Kerry is a traitor to his country, the Naval Service, and every Veteran who has served this country. His arrogance, deceit, and subversion condemned a generation of Veterans to hide in the shadows - ashamed that they served their country. Not once has he apologized for his lies. Not once has he admitted that his actions were damaging - not only to the POWs and service members still fighting in that war at the time - but to the current American service members who are fighting the war on terror.

We Viet Nam Veterans will NEVER forget what Kerry did to us, and we will NEVER allow this man to Command our sons and daughters.

AMEN to your post #39! My son is leaving for the Navy in January - and I DO NOT WANT HIM SERVING UNDER KERRY!!! He dispises Kerry as well, but he is already signed up and must go regardless. He says he will obey whoever his Commander in Chief is - however much he will dislike it. Thank God, I believe with my whole heart that President Bush will win re-election. My son, Nate, went to a Bush rally last week and he was so proud to say "That's the President I will serve under"!

And GunnyB - God Bless you and thank you for your service to our country. You are more appreciated than you know. Maybe the good Lord is using Kerry to make the truth come out!