Posted on 10/17/2004 9:44:35 AM PDT by CHARLITE
From Henry Mark Holzer's email newsletter:
Kerry smeared a hero: my dad. > By CAROL CROWLEY >Published on: 09/20/04 > Many of you believe dirty politics is the motivation of Vietnam >veterans speaking out in opposition to John Kerry. Let me tell you the real motivation. >
>In the movie "We Were Soldiers," the story about the battle of the la >Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, a young sergeant, Jack Gell, cried as >he died, "Tell my wife I love her . . ." and my family relived the >death of my dad. He told my mother in letters that he and those he >served with believed they were doing the right thing, fighting to help >a sovereign nation defend its freedom. >
>Before the movie was filmed, I heard my father's dying words from >retired Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and journalist Joe Galloway, who were with >him in the Valley of Death. I met Mel Gibson, who played Col. Moore in >the movie, showing him family pictures and letters to help him learn >the essence of these young men serving their country in a difficult >time. Gibson said my father was a true hero. >
>I remember when the movie was released witnessing the healing of men >and family members who clung to this story with a new pride after >decades of being vilified. Finally, they talked about it. Finally, many >were proud to be Vietnam veterans. >
>And then Kerry was nominated as a presidential candidate. >
>I don't blame Kerry for my father's death, and I don't much care if he >shamelessly chased after medals. But I do care that when he returned >from Vietnam he gave aid and comfort to the enemy while our soldiers >were still dying. I care that he smeared my father and a generation of >our armed forces with false charges of war crimes while posing himself >as a hero. I care that Kerry's false charges encouraged our enemy who >was pressuring our POWs in inhumane ways to confess to imaginary war >crimes. I care that he went to Paris to meet with the Viet Cong in 1970 >while still an officer in the Navy Reserve, returning to publicly >advocate for their position and against America's position. >
>This isn't about politics. It's about honor and betrayal and protecting >our country. And for me it is deeply personal, as it is for countless >vets. Thirty-nine years later, my mother still cries on Nov 14. >Thirty-nine years later, we miss my father every day. Thirty-nine years >later, Kerry poses as a hero. As children of Vietnam veterans, many of >us feel an unwelcome emotional strain as the arguments about what >really happened in Vietnam are tugged back and forth, often by people >who were not there. We deeply resent the suggestion that our fathers >were war criminals as that theme inevitably seeps into the argument. >
>We are educated and grown. We have children of our own, some in the >service. We know in our heart and soul the scars of war that will never >go away. But we are not weak, and we will not be silent. I will stand >with the Vietnam veterans who speak out, and the voice of my father >will be heard through me. >
>As long as I have breath and Kerry seeks the office of president, I >will speak out against him. Others like me are too many to count. >
>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.
>Carol Crowley lives in Charlotte, N.C.
And here might be a good place to relate to you an email I just received from one of my new cyber friends, Sandy. She writes, "I am with you and the rest of the concerned Citizens of our Country about T.H.Kerry - my question to my fellow Citizens who want to vote for Kerry is
"Why do we have to have a man who prefers France to the U.S.A. A man whose lately acquired wife a Portuguese woman from the Mozambique A Colonialist if ever there was one Who is trying to buy the Presidency with Republican money That she inherited from her late husband with his Ketchup money ?
How could anybody want to replace her with the graceful Laura Bush? How can we possibly have a man for President who would have been hung for Treason not that long ago!
Is there a 527 group that can get together one last ad saying that Kerry is akin to Benedict Arnold and site how he has turned his back on our troupes today, as he did to his comrades in Vietnam ? Or do you know anybody prominent that can go before the American people in these last few days and get out all these talking points one last time? Please let me know if there is anything I can to to help in these last few days.
Have Courage - Good must endure over Evil ! Sandra
Kerry smeared a hero: my dad.
By CAROL CROWLEY
Published on: 09/20/04
Many of you believe dirty politics is the motivation of Vietnam veterans speaking out in opposition to John Kerry. Let me tell you the real motivation.
In the movie "We Were Soldiers," the story about the battle of the la Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, a young sergeant, Jack Gell, cried as he died, "Tell my wife I love her . . ." and my family relived the death of my dad. He told my mother in letters that he and those he served with believed they were doing the right thing, fighting to help a sovereign nation defend its freedom.
Before the movie was filmed, I heard my father's dying words from retired Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and journalist Joe Galloway, who were with him in the Valley of Death. I met Mel Gibson, who played Col. Moore in the movie, showing him family pictures and letters to help him learn the essence of these young men serving their country in a difficult time. Gibson said my father was a true hero.
I remember when the movie was released witnessing the healing of men and family members who clung to this story with a new pride after decades of being vilified. Finally, they talked about it. Finally, many were proud to be Vietnam veterans.
And then Kerry was nominated as a presidential candidate.
I don't blame Kerry for my father's death, and I don't much care if he shamelessly chased after medals. But I do care that when he returned from Vietnam he gave aid and comfort to the enemy while our soldiers were still dying. I care that he smeared my father and a generation of our armed forces with false charges of war crimes while posing himself as a hero. I care that Kerry's false charges encouraged our enemy who was pressuring our POWs in inhumane ways to confess to imaginary war crimes. I care that he went to Paris to meet with the Viet Cong in 1970 while still an officer in the Navy Reserve, returning to publicly advocate for their position and against America's position.
This isn't about politics. It's about honor and betrayal and protecting our country. And for me it is deeply personal, as it is for countless vets. Thirty-nine years later, my mother still cries on Nov 14. Thirty-nine years later, we miss my father every day. Thirty-nine years later, Kerry poses as a hero. As children of Vietnam veterans, many of us feel an unwelcome emotional strain as the arguments about what really happened in Vietnam are tugged back and forth, often by people who were not there. We deeply resent the suggestion that our fathers were war criminals as that theme inevitably seeps into the argument.
We are educated and grown. We have children of our own, some in the service. We know in our heart and soul the scars of war that will never go away. But we are not weak, and we will not be silent. I will stand with the Vietnam veterans who speak out, and the voice of my father will be heard through me.
As long as I have breath and Kerry seeks the office of president, I will speak out against him. Others like me are too many to count.
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.
Carol Crowley lives in Charlotte, N.C.
How 50% of the American people can be so blind befuddles me. Kerry deserves to an outcast to our entire society, not a presidential candidate.
The elite media, which is not fulfilling their duty to properly inform the American public about the facts about Kerry, needs a good housecleaning.
Thanks for the formatted version. I passed it along.
An excellent reason to get out and vote. PAJAMA PEOPLE AND FAIR MINDED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE versus THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. 1st round on November 2nd.
See the highly regarded conservative website The Federalist http://patriotpetitions.us/kerry/. They have a petition all of us can sign - 178110 signers so far.
Petition to Indict and Disqualify John Kerry from National Office
The petition will be sent to the Senate President , Senate Majority Leader and Attorney General after the election:
"Though John Kerry has an extensive and well-documented record of anti-American activities over the past three decades, it is his acts of treason in 1970-71 that are the subject of this petition for indictment. Our appeal notes both Kerry's violations of the UCMJ (Article 104 part 904) and U.S. Code (18 USC Sec. 2381 and 18 USC Sec. 953), and calls for his disqualification for public office in accordance with the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President ... having previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
"Why prosecute John Kerry now? In October 2003, Mr. Kerry chose to make his Vietnam war record the centerpiece of his campaign for the presidency; this has been especially true since his primary victory in March 2004. In response, more than 165,000 signatories of the above-referenced petition for indictment have made his war record the centerpiece of their campaign to disqualify Kerry from public office. We understand that no action is likely to be taken on this petition until after the 02 November election. Be it known, however, that on 03 November, we will seek full recourse in an effort to have John Kerry prosecuted for acts of treason and disqualified from any future campaign for any national office. We are thus committed to holding Mr. Kerry accountable for his actions, as there is no statute of limitations for acts of treason."
There is more background at their site.
Send the petition to as many as possible and have them do likewise! This might open the eyes of some.
I give all the credit in the world to John Kerry for going to Vietnam, but, like his aid to the enemy, his three purple heats are too much. My dad was seriously injured in WWI near St. Malo, in Brittany, in August 1944. When wounded, he was not expected to live, and the U.S. Army so told my mother. He spent 6 months in a hospital in England, flat on his back, receiving antiobiotic injections every 2 hours to ward off infection, and barely survived. He went home in 1945, but in early 1946 he acquired hepatitis from a dirty needle from his injections, and almost died again. Then, in 1950-51, he had an severe reaction to antiobiotics from all the shots he had received, and almost died again. For all the years I knew him, he never felt physically well. He died at age 59, but never complained (or bragged) about the war.
Grand total for almost dying three times: 1 purple heart.
John Kerry is a weasel, and he knows it.
Narenta
To the leftist media in our country and around the world, the real heros of Viet Nam were those who came back and trashed the American war effort and those soldiers who died fighting for a free South Viet Nam. It is one of the reasons that even today the lefist media touts Kerry as a war hero. They know he is no hero is the real sense of the word, only in their leftist twisted minds would he be a hero, as he is to the Viet Namese Government.
I am very sorry you lost your father in that war. I believe he died a hero and deserves the honors and repects for his bravery and his actions. It eats at me to see someone like Kerry steal his decorations for lying while true heros are ignored.
What makes the loss of your father even more disturbing is that McNamara and Johnson refused to allow them to fight the war as a war and to win it. In spite of what the self proclaimed experts say, it could have been won, had the military been given the weaponry and the manpower and removed the political stupidity that stymied the military.
When kerry lied in front of congress he maligned every man who has worn
a uniform of this nation from it's inception to that far distant date
when we are no more.
Well thank you for the post...But Kerry also contributed to the death of my stepfather... Who served in vietnam and to me was a hero to... For sKerry to call the men baby killers and murderers it left a long hurtful agony for the men that were in vietnam.. For thirty years my stepdad hurt inside and for thirty years he suffered the pain of thinking what he did was wrong..And it is all because of the people like sKerry and the fonda biAtch.
For me kerry is someone that has not only hurt my step dad, but he hurt me my mother my little sister and my brother and the numerous friends Ronald Blakney left behind on Feb 25, 1995...
The only place for sKerry is hell.. Sorry i get heated talking about it...
God bless our vets...
Cassandra, at http://joatmoaf.typepad.com/i_love_jet_noise/ writes today:
Letter To ABC Nightline
You may remember Laura Armstrong from the announcement of the KerryLied rally back in August. She is the daughter of Lt. Col. Roger J. "Black Bart" Bartholomew, a First Air Cavalry rocket artillery helicopter pilot who was killed in Vietnam on Thanksgiving Day 1968.
Laura contacted me about the KerryLied rally in August. I had never attended anything of this kind, and it was very out of character for me to do so. I am so glad I went.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I spent much of the rally in tears - it was one of the most moving events I have ever witnessed. I share Laura's anger at the local media for ignoring the event - I wrote a famous columnist at the Washington Post and asked him how they could ignore a gathering of that size involving our Vietnam Veterans, but he never answered me. I guess campaigning for John Kerry was more important to them.
Ms. Armstrong has a message for ABC:
To ABC Nightline:
To say that Nightline found "the one group" who hasn't weighed in on Kerry's Vietnam service is total BS. While we've all heard ad nauseum from the 9-11 families and have heard the press talk about how Bush has offended them by using the images of 9-11, WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF VIETNAM, who had to endure John Kerry's legacy of lies, both then and now, during this campaign?
I am one of those children, and had to endure teachers who censured me, people who told me (as a small child) "YOUR DADDY DESERVED TO DIE IN VIETNAM -- HE WAS A BABYKILLER". We watched our moms, young widows who were afraid to say what happened to their husbands because they never knew whether they might get sympathy or hate. All because John Kerry testified before the world that our fathers committed atrocities at every level of command. His lies based on hear-say hurt ALL of us, for years and years, and yet who's interviewed us?
Many of us kids of Vietnam participated in a huge rally on Capitol Hill on Sept. 12, hoping to explain how Kerry's actions impacted our lives, yet your ABC Washington bureau couldn't even walk down the street to cover it.
And now you send people to Vietnam?!!!!
I am ashamed to have gone to journalism school. Ashamed to have been a journalist. I have NEVER been so disgusted with the news media in my life. ABC and other national news has been COMPLICIT in helping the Kerry campaign this year, diminishing the heartfelt testimony of American heroes and trying to demonize a group of valiant men who actually served with John Kerry. You call it the "fog of war" -- I call it "marginalizing our heroes".
How can we trust you to cover this war? The answer is -- we don't.
We are the sons and daughters of American fighting men. In many cases, we are now the sons and daughters who fight this war on global terrorism,or keep the home fires burning while our spouses, brothers and sisters deploy to keep America safe. WE earned the right to speak, yet you only seek those who might help discredit our heroic Swift Boat Veterans.
Just as ABC tries to marginalize the Swift Boat Veterans, you ignore us in order to interview people who might or might not be legitimate.
We will never forget this. Many of us will be working, even after this election, to make sure truth is known about our national "journalists" and their biased ABUSE of trust.
You, as well as John Kerry, hurt us then, perpetuating myths about our fathers, and you cannot admit that you were wrong today. That's just shoddy.
Laura B. Armstrong
Does it strike anyone other than me, how odd it is that the American media are willing to go all the way to Vietnam to avoid putting the Swift Vets on camera?
Normally if you wanted to discredit someone, would you not put them in front of a camera and ask them some hard questions? Yet this is exactly what the media have NOT done with the Swift Vets - it's like the dog that did not bark in the night.
They ignore them totally.
They are obviously afraid to put them in front of a camera, because if the American people ever saw them interviewed, it would quickly become apparent that they are quite credible and that they have quite a bit of evidence assembled to prove their case.
Otherwise, why not just put them up on camera and demolish them? After all, they're just a bunch of partisan liars. All 60-odd of them who have signed affadavits.
- Cassandra
October 16, 2004
Laura and Carol both appeared at the Kerry Lied Rally, which went uncovered by the MSM.
HAS HE NO SHAME?
Crap! "me" = "mean".
I truly believe one of the documents in Kerry's un-released Military records is a pardon from Jimmy Carter over his treason during the Vietnam Conflict. I believe it is one of the main reasons he will not sigh form 180. What I don't know is if this will effect Article 14.
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