Posted on 11/02/2006 9:56:59 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
lol too bad someone did snap his finger off.
All the more reason for the word to spread back to the troops about the negative blowback that Kerry's remarks are getting, and that the "little things" like this troop making this banner and sending it home to friends do get noticed and appreciated.
That finger won't bend. Too much Botox ;-).
Thought of you and thought you would appreciate this thread.
The blowback would be ALEAST one hundred-fold.
I plan on doing what I can to get it to make the circuit, but it is probably doing great on its own.
The Email is well written, easy -- and fun -- to read.
Another ding in jon carry's armor.
I am so proud of our military.
I saved it to my hard drive with a date of 8.23.04.
You could google it for more info. What I recall from my dusty mental archives is that he wasn't making nice with these guys and actually got in their faces. Being active duty, they had to take it. You might also try a FR archive search. There was a lot of chatter about it.
Thanks, Kate. I'd like to know that the guys in Iraq saw it.
thanks for that. it looks like he is chewing on the one soldier and the one sitting down doesn't look too impressed. :(
We are supposed to be helping boost the morale of the troops..These troops did a great job of boosting mine!!!..
May God bless them all. I am so grateful for their service.
It was a pretty nasty exchange as I recall. (Wish I had a better memory for these things.)
i just did a search and found lots of pics of him throwing like a girl (well i am a girl and NEVER threw a baseball like that...but...) and him trying to catch footballs (LOL) but nothing with the two soldiers! :( thanks for trying to remember anyway! :)
ping
Woohoo! I found where I got that photo originally:
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/
Kerry’s Advances Rejected by Marines
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/kerry_marines.htm
DEM'S MARINE MISFIRE
By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN
New York Post Online Edition --- July 31, 2004 -- SCRANTON, Pa. -- John Kerry's heavily hyped cross-country bus tour stumbled out of the blocks yesterday, as a group of Marines publicly dissed the Vietnam War hero in the middle of a crowded restaurant.
Kerry was treating running mate Sen. John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, to a Wendy's lunch in Newburgh, N.Y., for their 27th wedding anniversary -- an Edwards family tradition -- when the candidate approached four Marines and asked them questions.
The Marines -- two in uniform and two off-duty -- were polite but curt while chatting with Kerry, answering most of his questions with a "yes, sir" or "no, sir."
But they turned downright nasty after the Massachusetts senator thanked them "for their service" and left.
"He imposed on us and I disagree with him coming over here shaking our hands," one Marine said, adding, "I'm 100 percent against [him]."
A sergeant with 10 years of service under his belt said, "I speak for all of us. We think that we are doing the right thing in Iraq," before saying he is to be deployed there in a few weeks and is "eager" to go and serve.
The Marines -- all of whom serve at nearby Stewart Air Force Base -- wouldn't give their names.
It wasn't an auspicious start to the senators' "Believe in America" bus tour -- a 22-state, 43-city tour that will cover roughly 3,500 miles over 15 days in an effort to carry some of their momentum out of the Democratic convention . . .
thanks for the detective work, i think you could change your nick to GretchenM-PI LOL
My stepson was in Iraq for a year. He came over tonight and he is usually pretty quiet but tonight he was livid with anger. He told us stories of the sucesses over there. He said that coverage here couldn't be farther from the truth. He told us about an old woman dipping water out of a dirty puddle to drink and then later seeing her get a cup of clean water from a new water supply running to their village. I nearly cried at the beautiful stories he told about the Iraqi people. Somehow we have got to get these stories out. I wonder if FoxNews would do just one short story a night on Hannity and Colmes. Rush has a list of goals the terrorists had that they couldn't get done and why.
I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, so for good measure:
http://www.redbullweb.com/5.html
I hear phone cards are a good way to say thank you!
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