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ABC IS SHAMELESS!
Move Over, CBS and NBC
by Fred Marshall Jr.
October 15, 2004

ABC delivered, on Prime Time Live on Thursday evening, the most shameless "hit piece" I have seen in any election campaign cycle. A brief but terribly incomplete summary of it is still available on ABC's website at this link:

Wounded Soldiers Come Back to Poverty
http://esampler.tns-global.com/eSampler/writetest.html?AOL,BBCNews

The 14-minute segment I watched is clearly a thinly-veiled ploy to discredit the current administration. The suggestion is that there is much which should be done to improve "the way our wounded soldiers are treated" and the implication is that the "egregious injustice" (that more is not done) is the fault of the current administration.

A casual disclaimer is subtly mentioned early on in the broadcast, admitting that by all accounts the medical treatment received by all is "exceptional" but hastens to charge that the government has not helped its wounded men to recover financially (suggesting that government is responsible to do so).

Before I explain this travesty in reporting, let me lay a brief foundation and then pose a couple of questions for ABC which are "seared in me." I should mention that I am a three-time Vietnam veteran.

Foundation: The conditions described in the segment (1) have existed in all previous wars (at least dating back to 1955 when I first enlisted), and (2) are not significantly unlike many similar situations that occur in civilian life. It would certainly be nice if there were provisions in all health care systems to provide more financial relief to victims than is currently available in any of them, but to suggest these are unprecedented is ludicrous.

Questions for ABC:

(1) Since authorizing and funding medical care for the military are functions of Congress, what has Congress done over, say, the past 20 years to address these concerns?

(2) More specifically, what have Senator John Kerry and the preceeding four presidents done to address these matters?

One would think that, with Kerry's being such a self-declared combat hero who was thrice wounded himself, he would be keenly aware of the plight of combat warriors. So, before we ask what President Bush has done in three and a half years, let's ask what Kerry has done over a span of twenty.

The segment centers around three cases, all supposedly discovered by a visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC). In general terms at the outset, the narrator suggests that wounded men are forced to "panhandle" in order to raise money so that relatives and loved ones can visit the wounded veterans in the hospital.

I personally know of no health care coverage in the world that provides coverage for the expenses others incur for hospital visits. There are some charities, such as those associated with St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, which help needy families with such arrangements and expenses, but I am unaware of any hospitalization coverage which does so. Most civilian health care coverage only covers a percentage of the DOCTOR's visits, for crying out loud.

My own 85-year-old mother was in the Cardiac Unit for 19 days in a Memphis hospital recently, and I traveled from Georgia to be with her during that time and for some time after she went home, 80 miles from Memphis. Who will reimburse me for my travel and hotel lodging near the hospital for 19 days? Huh? The loving son of a helpless and stricken elderly woman has been "disenfranchised," wouldn't you say? Give me a break. Those expenses are mine.

Conspicuously absent in the report is any claim that these three men sustained wounds as a result of hostile action, although most viewers can be expected to assume that (1) the wounds occurred, (2) they occurred in Iraq, and (3) therefore they must be combat wounds. In one case, the narrator says the soldier has not received a Purple Heart but concedes that one of the other soldiers has received a Purple Heart. My read of that is that most likely two of the three injuries were non-combat injuries.

One soldier in the segment, Specialist Tyson Johnson, had been wounded sufficiently seriously that he could not remain on active duty, although he appears quite normal in the video footage. Wounded in Iraq during his second enlistment, he had not been able to complete the enlistment term for which he had received, in advance, a reenlistment bonus (the nature and cause of Johnson's wounds are not mentioned by ABC).

The Army Finance Center, therefore, sent him a notification that he must re-imburse the government for the unearned portion of his bonus ($2,717), a concept that has traditionally applied when the enlistment contract is not completed. Johnson has made no payment toward his bill. I believe professional sports heroes have to pay back unearned portions of their signing bonuses if they fail to complete their playing contracts, even though they are most often injured while performing their duties for their employers. But I could be wrong on this point.

ABC's segment stated that Johnson has to live in his car because the Pentagon reported to the credit bureau his failure to repay the government "loan" (technically, a bonus is a loan that doesn't have to be paid back if the conditions are met), thus "ruining" his credit to the extent that he is unable to rent an apartment. That, my friends, doesn't pass the laugh test. Where is his family? What rental agency would turn down a recent veteran of the Iraq war if he had an otherwise good credit rating and reliable employment?

Staff Sergeant Ryan Kelly lost his right leg "in Iraq." How he lost it is not mentioned. He is shown walking with a prosthesis almost normally, far better than most amputees walk. On camera he says, pitifully, that wounded men he has talked to say their families would be better off financially if they had been killed.

Staff Sergeant Peter Damon lost both his arms "in an explosion while repairing a helicopter in Iraq." Damon's monthly disability payments will be "calculated from a fixed set of federal regulations based upon which limbs have been amputated and precisely where."

The applicable statutes are found in Title 38, United States Code, and the regulations at Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations. They are not new. They have been in place for decades. They could have been amended at any time by the Congress. That they haven't been is not the fault of the current administration, or the Pentagon.

According to those regulations (and, incidentally, according to Social Security regulations) an amputee is considered disabled only if he has lost two limbs or one limb and one eye. I know that first hand, as I am an above-the-knee amputee myself and am entitled to no disability from either the VA or Social Security.

Nowhere in the segment is there any mention of President Bush, his administration, or Congress. Instead, ABC News went to the Pentagon and confronted Lieutenant General Franklin Hagenbeck, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel (DCSPER). While the interview aired left the impression that the General had arranged to cancel Johnson's $2,717 obligation to the government, nothing specific was promised other than "we will take care of our soldiers."

Why didn't ABC go to the leaders in Congress and ask why the statutes and regulations do not provide a mechanism for restoring Reserve and National Guardsmen to the income levels they enjoyed prior to mobilization and deployment? Of course the Pentagon is the place to go to find out why a Purple Heart has not been awarded, but bureaucrats charged with the responsibility of paying and collecting money operate under rules legislated by Congress. The General can't change those rules, so why go to him at all?

And since Kerry and the media have been touting the endorsement of Kerry by a small group of recently-retired generals and admirals, what did they do during their tenures to alleviate these alleged injustices?

The thing that outrages me is the deliberate slant of the piece and its timing. Airing it just two weeks before the election is sure to mislead many viewers into believing that soldiers are suffering more under the Bush administration than at any other time in history. To make matters worse, there was an ABC ad during the commercial breaks promoting an upcoming special in which ABC says it has gone to Vietnam and found Vietnamese witnesses to the events which resulted in Senator Kerry's "winning" the Silver Star. They aim to "clear the air" on this "controversy." So, what do you expect will be the conclusion the special will trumpet?

Now folks, I gotta tell you all. I'm guessing there were probably 5,000 Silver Star Medals awarded during the Vietnam War....perhaps more. With the exception of South Vietnamese soldiers fighting with American troops, I cannot imagine a situation in which South Vietnamese civilians, or Viet Cong, could possibly give an accurate eyewitness account of an American warrior's actions in such an enemy encounter. Perhaps it could be done in a dozen cases, but no more than that. Yet we can bet the ABC special will purport to "justify" Kerry's Silver Star Medal.

We usually see what our own men do in combat, but the totality of his efforts are normally determined by piecing together the observations of several witnesses. No one man stops what he is doing to watch another. They are all fighting for their lives. For any participant, in an exchange of gunfire with the enemy, to identify some one enemy individual, while enemy forces are delivering deadly fire upon him and his comrades, and to be able to identify and describe the totality of the actions of that single enemy combatant, is a bit too much to expect from opposing forces.

It will be interesting to see what ABC has come up with. We know already that the intent will be to validate the story Kerry has told, thereby hoping to discredit all the accounts which have come from the men who served with Kerry and dispute his version(s) of events. And there can be no doubt about the timing of the piece.

If George Bush wins this election, it will have been done against great combined and well-coordinated propaganda efforts by the DNC, the Kerry Campaign, rock stars and Hollywood performers concentrating their concerts in the battleground states, George Soros and his "Shadow Party" support of Move-On.org, the ongoing massive DNC vote-buying and vote-rigging operations in battleground states, and the shameless help of the mainstream media, most notably ABC, CBS, and NBC.

Don't forget, ABC is the network which, on election night 2000, called the State of Florida as having gone for Gore a full hour before the polls had closed in Florida's Panhandle in the Central Time Zone, and called it with less than one-half of one percent of the precincts having reported in. Their intent was to discourage the last-hour voters in the heavily Republican Panhandle from voting at all. Election and media experts have since estimated that the early call most probably cost Bush at least 10,000 votes. Their mission this year is not different from their mission then. They want a Democrat in the White House and they don't care who or how he gets there, so long as he gets there.

If Bush wins this election by just 500 votes, it should be considered a landslide.

If he loses, then we will be in the home stretch of having lost a once-great country.

Personally, I have to believe that sufficient numbers of Republicans and enlightened Democrats will cast more votes for Bush than the Kerry supporters can cast, fabricate, and miscount. This is the most important presidential election of my lifetime, and we'll just have to wait and see whether God will divine that the right thing gets done or He has selected this election as an ingredient or component of the end times.

Copyright October 2004
Fred Marshall Jr.

A vote for John Kerry is a symbolic betrayal of every
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INDEX PAGE
Vietnam veterans protest Kerry
Kerry a traitor : new film tells some things clearly ....
Dan Rather & Bush National Guard Service
Flash: John Kerry’s Unbelievable Last-Ditch Weapon
Revenge
Kerry, Kerry, quite contrary-DOA
Democrats For Bush
Communist Connection
REJECT JOHN KERRY-RESTORE HONOR
Kerrys Fake Warriors
Time Line For John Kerry
UNITED NATIONS
Kerry Sinking Swift Boat...tells it like it is!
Kerry & MIA/POWS
ZELL MILLER VS KERRY
Kerry Documents/Pic's
Open Letter to Bush by a Veteran
Kerry Lied While Good Men Died Rally Update
Recent Postings
Kerry Admitted 1n 1971, He Wrote The Combat Reports
Families of POWs Frightened By Kerry
Score Card: America/SwiftVets 5 Communist/Kerry 0
Kerry Caught in Bed with China-FBI Files
The John Kerry Committee-Pro Communist thru and thru
Bring It On-Ok We Will
Military Records & The Plot Thickens
Kerry's Real Problem!
'atrocity' charge against comrades remains uncorrected
BACKTRACKS ON FIRST PURPLE HEART AWARD
Swiftees & Rood Evaluation
Kerry's Silver Star
Kerry's Bronze Star Analyzed
The Sampan incident by Pat Buchanan
The Book Kerry Doesn't Want You To Read "The New Soldier"
Kerry's Record
A Matter Of Honor, Swit Boat Vets
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Kerry's Camp Concedes to lies
Kerry's Cambodia Speech
Why Stop John Kerry
Maj Gen Brady (MOH) Writes
War Criminal
Excerpts Testimony
ThePointofNoReturn
KERRY QUOTES FROM 71
Geneva Convetnion
Aid and Comfort
Kerry's War Record
Kerry Betrayed POW/MIA
US VETS DENOUCNED AS CRIMINALS
John Kerry, the Sunshine Soldier
Kerry betrayed Veterans in 1971
VIETNAM POW'S AGAINST KERRY
KERRY & POWS
Kerry & Bendict Arnold
US REAL WAR CRIMINAL
WEST POINT SPEECH ABOUT KERRY
Winter Soldier
KERRY'S COMMUNIST CONNECTIONS
Viet Vets of America
Lt Wm Calley Murder Case
Another Swift Boat Captain denies Hostile Fire
Kerry is a SCAREDY CAT!
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Bosnia War Hero O'Grady: Kerry Committed Treason
Life-altering moment was a figment of his imagination?
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Buchanan-Kerry's Lies
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Kerry's Lies Documented
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May He Rot in Hell
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Letters Vet Family Members
LETTERS FROM REAL VIETNAM VETS
KIA/MIA Families Against Kerry
STUDENTS CALL AGAINST KERRY
Fact Sheets
Letter From Vietnamese Lady
Letters from Civilians

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http://www.vnsfvetakerry.com/kerrys_fake_warriors.htm

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213658/posts

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One Vietnam Veteran Against Kerry
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
Vietnam Special Forces Veterans Against Kerry
POW/MIA Family Members Against John Kerry
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Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform
Winter Soldiers.Com
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 68-69 says Stop Hanoi Kerry!
THE OLD SOLDIERS' HOME
John Kerry, Hero? POW/MIA Forum
Vets Against Kerry
Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry
Vietnam Vets Against John Kerry
Examining the Myths of the Vietnam War
Vietnam Veterans Against Kerry.org
Vietnam Veteran Against Kerry
Don Bendell, Special Forces
Honorable Vietnam Vet Marches Summer 2004
Swift Boat Brotherhood
U.S. Vets & Vietnamese Unite to Oppose Kerry
Real Heroes Voices
Screaming Eagle 101st Airborne, Vietnam Veteran
Vietnam Veterans Against Kerry
Green Beret.Net John Kerry, War Hero?
Combat Vets Against Kerry
LIDDY FILE Vietnam Vets Against Kerry
Combat Veterans For Bush
The Gun Zone -- The Case Against Kerry
Vets for Bush
Veterans & Friends Against Kerry WebRing
First Cav Div Website
In Honor of Our Vietnam War Veterans
Wildgun's C Troop 11th Cav
Kerry, truth, veterans, 2004 Presidential Campaign
River Vets
Weekend Webmaster - ron-siddell.com
John Kerry History Page 25th AVN
Vietnam Vet Against Kerry Bartimus.net
Stop Hanoi John
Links to Anti Kerry sites & News reports, Viper's Vietnam Veterans Page
Viper's Vietnam Veterans Page, A Vietnam Veteran & Proud
Vietnam Veterans & Proud Site Ring

Welcome
INDEX PAGE
Vietnam veterans protest Kerry
Kerry a traitor : new film tells some things clearly ....
Dan Rather & Bush National Guard Service
Flash: John Kerry’s Unbelievable Last-Ditch Weapon
Revenge
Kerry, Kerry, quite contrary-DOA
Democrats For Bush
Communist Connection
REJECT JOHN KERRY-RESTORE HONOR
Kerrys Fake Warriors
Time Line For John Kerry
UNITED NATIONS
Kerry Sinking Swift Boat...tells it like it is!
Kerry & MIA/POWS
ZELL MILLER VS KERRY
Kerry Documents/Pic's
Open Letter to Bush by a Veteran
Kerry Lied While Good Men Died Rally Update
Recent Postings
Kerry Admitted 1n 1971, He Wrote The Combat Reports
Families of POWs Frightened By Kerry
Score Card: America/SwiftVets 5 Communist/Kerry 0
Kerry Caught in Bed with China-FBI Files
The John Kerry Committee-Pro Communist thru and thru
Bring It On-Ok We Will
Military Records & The Plot Thickens
Kerry's Real Problem!
'atrocity' charge against comrades remains uncorrected
BACKTRACKS ON FIRST PURPLE HEART AWARD
Swiftees & Rood Evaluation
Kerry's Silver Star
Kerry's Bronze Star Analyzed
The Sampan incident by Pat Buchanan
The Book Kerry Doesn't Want You To Read "The New Soldier"
Kerry's Record
A Matter Of Honor, Swit Boat Vets
America Likes Quite Hero's Dole Tells Kerry
Kerry's Camp Concedes to lies
Kerry's Cambodia Speech
Why Stop John Kerry
Maj Gen Brady (MOH) Writes
War Criminal
Excerpts Testimony
ThePointofNoReturn
KERRY QUOTES FROM 71
Geneva Convetnion
Aid and Comfort
Kerry's War Record
Kerry Betrayed POW/MIA
US VETS DENOUCNED AS CRIMINALS
John Kerry, the Sunshine Soldier
Kerry betrayed Veterans in 1971
VIETNAM POW'S AGAINST KERRY
KERRY & POWS
Kerry & Bendict Arnold
US REAL WAR CRIMINAL
WEST POINT SPEECH ABOUT KERRY
Winter Soldier
KERRY'S COMMUNIST CONNECTIONS
Viet Vets of America
Lt Wm Calley Murder Case
Another Swift Boat Captain denies Hostile Fire
Kerry is a SCAREDY CAT!
Kerry, Make All Of Your Records Available!
Bosnia War Hero O'Grady: Kerry Committed Treason
Life-altering moment was a figment of his imagination?
And it didn't happen in January, either!
Buchanan-Kerry's Lies
COMMAND AND CONFIDENCE
DNC email asking all to repudiate Swift Boat Vets
Kerry's war record by Robert Novak
My Letter to Senator McCain, Ref SWIFTVET Ad
JIM RASSMANN-KERRY'S LONE SF LT
Who is Max Cleland?
Rally-We Need Your Help
Kerry-North Vietnam's War Hero
Kerry's Lies Documented
Kerry Lied About Being In Cambodia
KERRY'S AWARDS
America-Are you listening
The Kerry Doctrine on War
Kerry is the communist choice-Please Read
Kerry's Voting Record
Unfairenheit 9/11
The Campaign of Hate and Fear
May He Rot in Hell
Kerry unfit for office -- sign petition to prosecute!
Letters Vet Family Members
LETTERS FROM REAL VIETNAM VETS
KIA/MIA Families Against Kerry
STUDENTS CALL AGAINST KERRY
Fact Sheets
Letter From Vietnamese Lady
Letters from Civilians

EIB Interview: Rush Limbaugh interviews John E. O'Neill
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082704/content/eib_interview.guest.html

Swift Boat Vets for Truth - 4 TV Ads - Medals, SellOut, Gunner, Any Questions?
http://swift4.he.net/~swift4/index.php?topic=Ads

The Real Story on John Kerry's Military Service
http://swiftvets.com/

Below: C-SPAN Streaming Videos (all RealPlayer)

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Press Conference -- May 04, 2004 (1:21:52)rtsp://video.cspan.org/project/c04/c04050404_antikerry.rm

Below: C-SPAN Streaming Videos (all RealPlayer)

John O'Neill on Sen. John Kerry -- April 21, 2004 (30:12)rtsp://video.cspan.org/project/c04/c04_wj042104_oneill.rm

Below: C-SPAN Streaming Videos (all RealPlayer)

John Kerry debates John O'Neill on the Dick Cavett Show -- June 30, 1971 (2:01:17)
rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/c04/c04_rwh081504.rm

Media Research Center - Liberal Media Bias in Bush-Kerry Face-offhttp://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040806.asp

Kerry's Self-Indictment
Published: 7/30/2004
By: Ben Johnson

Vietnam Propagandist for President?
Published: 7/26/2004
By: Jim Warner

The Biggest Liar of Them All
Published: 7/30/2004
By: David Horowitz

Monumental Mistake
Published: 8/30/2004
By: Joel Mowbray

It's Kerry's Anti-War Record They Resent
Published: 8/27/2004
By: Jeff Jacoby

Admitted War Criminal Cries Foul
Published: 8/26/2004
By: Ann Coulter

The Swift Truth
Published: 8/26/2004
By: Lowell Ponte

Kerry's Soggy Tall Tale
Published: 8/23/2004
By: John E. O'Neill and Jerome L. Corsi

Startling Comparisons
Published: 8/12/2004
By: Michael P. Tremoglie

Brothers Banding Together Against Kerry
Published: 8/12/2004
By: Ann Coulter

Kerry: Yep, I'm Back to Pro-War
Published: 8/12/2004
By: Joel Mowbray

Kerry Froze in the Cold War
Published: 8/11/2004
By: Joshua Muravchik

John Kerry's Real Vietnam Record
Published: 8/10/2004
By: Robert Novak

Vietnam...Today
Published: 8/9/2004
By: Jeff Jacoby

Kerry's Arafat Yes-Man
Published: 8/2/2004
By: David Bedein

Democratic Party "Leper" Endorses Bush
Published: 8/2/2004
By: Jerome Zeifman

Teresa's Odd Speech
Published: 7/30/2004
By: Thomas Lifson

John Kerry's Stalinist Campaign Slogan
Published: 7/29/2004
By: Barbara Kay

Teresa Heinz Kerry Becomes a Campaign Issue
Published: 7/29/2004
By: Dick Morris

John Edwards: A Workingman's Nightmare
Published: 7/28/2004
By: Lowell Ponte

Teresa Heinz Kerry's 1975 Anti-Kennedy Screed
Published: 7/27/2004
By: David Guarino

Kerry, Catholics and Capital Punishment
Published: 7/23/2004
By: Michael P. Tremoglie

The Democrats' Clinton - Kennedy Divide
Published: 7/22/2004
By: Dick Morris

"Stronger at Home, Respected in the World"?
Published: 7/21/2004
By: Don Feder

Kerry's (Latest) Position on the War on Terror
Published: 7/19/2004
By: Joel Mowbray

Over His Head
Published: 7/7/2004
By: Ben Johnson

John Kerry's Winning Formula: Invisibility
Published: 6/28/2004
By: Dick Morris

Kerry's Religious Adviser Wanted "Under God" Taken Out of Pledge of Allegiance
Published: 8/4/2004
External Source: Washington Times

Teresa Heinz Kerry Lies About "un-American" Comment, Tells Reporter, "Shove It."
Published: 7/27/2004
External Source: Washington Times

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Kerry embellished his After Action Reports to get medals that he didn’t deserve. He fabricated accusations when he came back from Vietnam when he spoke before the Senate Intelligence Committee when he said that his fellow Vietnam Veterans committed atrocities. He has never provided any proof that his accusations were true, and in fact now admits that his accusations were “over the top”. Over the top? They were untrue! And his falsifications harmed POW’s, their families, and Vietnam Veterans in general.

POW’s who were in North Vietnam prison camps when Kerry was telling his fabricated stories to the Senate and the American public to bolster his political ambitions were tortured and threatened to be placed on trial as “War Criminals”. POW’s were told by their captors “You will never go home” because of Kerry’s fabrications. Kerry’s untrue accusations are unforgivable.

General Vo Nguyen Gaip , the Commanding officer of the North Vietnamese Military and Bui Tin who served on the General Staff of the North Vietnam Army and received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975 both claim that North Vietnam was poised to negotiate a surrender because of the Communist’s military failures during the 1968 Tet Offensive and thereafter. But because of the Anti-War movement in America (led by Jane Fonda and John Kerry) they felt that the Demonstrations “gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses."

America was kicking the Communist’s butt in every battle. General Westmoreland had the Communist’s number and was winning the war. America’s pullout of Vietnam was due to Kerry and his group of Demonstrators. Kerry’s ant-war activities played a very significant part in causing America to lose the war in Vietnam.

Because of John Kerry and others like him there are more names on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D. C. than there otherwise would have been. There was also the slaughter of 3.5 million South Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians when America pulled out that is significantly attributable to John Kerry and his now admittedly “over the top” accusations. John Kerry has blood dripping from his untrue accusations.

When I returned home to Los Angeles from Vietnam in 1971 my head was spinning as I walked through the Terminal at LAX, thinking about the culture of war that I had just left while looking around at the opulence in America. When I stepped outside onto the sidewalk a group of “Longhairs” walked by and one of them spat on me while the others called me a “Baby Killer”. I feel that the treatment that I received, and have lived with for the past 33 years, was due to John Kerry and his lies.

John Kerry does not have the moral integrity, honesty, or judgment to be the Commander-In-Chief of the world’s most powerful military. John Kerry IS, unfit for command.

Viet-Boat-Rider

Vietnam Veteran

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I am calling it now for Bush with over 320 electoral votes.

Vet Nam Vets ~ the truth will set you free ~ Bump!

As a 64 year old Army veteran, I can guarantee you that there were no veterans among these gutless creeps who did this to our Vietnam veterans.

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FLUSH THE JOHNS!

Kerry’s OUTRAGEOUS slander / Backstabber deserves to be SPIT on!

Have you ever watched one of the beheading videos? I have seen two of them and I don’t care to see another. I am a Vietnam combat Veteran and I’m a little hardened to sights like that, but those beheadings are most likely the most hideous, deplorable, in-humane, and gruesome actions that I have ever seen.

The people conducting and condoning the beheadings are below animals. They are the scum of the earth that deserve to die a torturous death. Their souls have eroded into a burnt remnant of a human being. Hanging in the town square is too good for them.

WAIT A MINUTE! I am one of those sub-humans! At least according to John Kerry. John Kerry is so sure that I am the same as those barbarians that are beheading people in Iraq that he went before the Senate of these United States and testified that I and my fellow Veterans were “cutting off ears, cutting off heads, and taping wires to genitals and turning up the power.”

I wonder if my wife and four children know that their husband and father is a scum of the earth that deserve to die a torturous death? That my soul has eroded into a burnt remnant of a human being. And that hanging in the town square is too good for me?

My eleven-year-old daughter, Victoria, might see John Kerry’s testimony before the Senate and discover what kind of monster her father is! After all, isn’t John Kerry a United States Senator! A person would not be elected to represent Americans if he were a liar and traitor, now would he. So what he said about me must be true!

For me to have to explain to Victoria that John Kerry is a liar and a traitor, and that I am not a hideous murderer as the Senator claims, is my reward for answering the call of duty for my country.

For me to have to explain to Victoria that the people of Massachusetts don’t care about America or the truth, and that they have a twisted view of America that is not the right way to be, is also my reward for answering my country’s call.

Enduring John Kerry’s lies and trying to raise my family to respect America isn’t easy when the main stream media covers for him.

John Kerry’s outrageous slander of Vietnam Veterans, and the manner in which he stabbed his shipmates in the back with his lies for his own personal ambitions, demonstrates what a despicable person that he is.

It is John Kerry that is the scum of the earth that deserve to die a torturous death. It is John Kerry’s soul that has eroded into a burnt remnant of a human being. Hanging in the town square is too good for HIM!

Upon my return to Los Angeles from Vietnam I was spat on and called a “Baby Killer” by a group of longhairs outside the terminal at LAX. I find myself decades later having to explain to my daughter that I am not a person who beheads people like those inhuman animals in Iraq as John Kerry claims. This is the impact that Kerry’s lies have had on my life, and the lives of many Vietnam Veterans.

In my humble opinion, anyone that would cast a vote for John Kerry might as well move to Massachusetts and live with the other people who don’t care about America or the truth, and that have a twisted view of America that is not the right way to be. Viet-Boat-Rider

I said this before: the evil want the evil to lead. And we all know that we have a LOT of evil in America today!

God Bless Our Vets!

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Fabulous work.
GREAT posts both.

I have hated the Son of a B$tch for 33 years, Pay back is a mother. By the way I spent 27 months in VN, 1965 through 68, with a short stay in the states in between, Army.