Posted on 11/24/2017 3:27:39 PM PST by little jeremiah
(The following is an open letter to the voters of Alabama from Bill Staehle of Asbury Park, New Jersey.)
I served with Roy Moore in Vietnam in 1971-72, where I knew him to be an altogether honorable, decent, respectable, and patriotic commander and soldier. I have had no contact with him since.
He and I were captains and company commanders in the 504th Military Police Battalion, stationed at the base camp called Camp Land, just west of Danang.
I knew him well in my first four months in-country before I was re-assigned within the battalion to another location. During that time, I grew to admire him.
I am Bill Staehle, residing in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I am an attorney, practicing law continuously for 42-years. I began my career as an assistant United States attorney, and for the past 32 years, I have been the managing trial lawyer for the staff counsel office of a major insurance company.
Allow me to relate to you one experience involving Roy that impressed me.
While in Vietnam, there came a time when another officer invited Roy and me to go with him into town after duty hours for a couple of beers. That officer had just returned from an assignment in Quang Tri Province north of Danang, and we were interested to learn of his experiences.
I had not met him before, and I don’t believe Roy had either. On other occasions with other officers, we would go to the officers’ club at the air force base, but on this occasion, he told us he knew of another place in town.
When we arrived at the place and went inside, it was clear to Roy and me that he had taken us to a brothel. That officer appeared to know people there, as he was greeted by one or two young women in provocative attire.
The place was plush. There were other American servicemen there. Alcohol was being served. There were plenty of very attractive young women clearly eager for an intimate time.
In less time than it took any of the women to approach us, Roy turned to me and said words to this effect, “We shouldn’t be here. I am leaving.”
We told the officer who had brought us that we wanted to leave. He told us to take his jeep and that he could get a ride back later, which he did. Roy and I drove back to camp together.
That evening, if I didn’t know it before, I knew then that with Roy Moore I was in the company of a man of great self-control, discipline, honor, and integrity. While there were other actions by Roy that reinforced my belief in him, that was the most telling.
I reject what are obvious, politically motivated allegations against Roy of inappropriate dating behavior. What I saw, felt and knew about him in Vietnam stands in stark contrast to those allegations.
I sincerely doubt that Roy’s character had changed fundamentally and dramatically in a few short years later. He deserves, in my view, to be heard on the issues that are important to the people of Alabama and our country.
Roy was a soldier for whom I was willing to put my life on the line in Vietnam if the occasion ever arose. Fortunately, it did not.
I was prepared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with him then, and I am proud to stand by Roy now.
— William E. Staehle, Asbury Park, New Jersey
Roy Moore’s war buddy: ‘I knew him to be an altogether honorable, decent, respectable, and patriotic commander and soldier’
The WaPo narrative on Moore is melting, mmmeeellting.
I don’t know why I didn’t do a search first.
First ive heard he is a Vietnam vet.
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Bump!
The dog that didn’t bark.
That'll tell you something right there.
The man they couldn't bork.
Just because Moore wasn’t interested in prostitutes doesn’t mean that later he didn’t have a thing for innocent teenagers. Because he did, by his own admission re his future wife. Attracted to young innocent American girls doesn’t = being attracted to Vietnamese hookers who have sex with other men many times a day.
Not like “shot-in-the-butt” Kerry who served in Vietnam and got 2 Purple Hearts, don’t you know!
Being attracted to young women doesn’t mean he abused them and only one has alleged abuse. Only one women, who also has accused several other men, claims he was involved with her at 14. Her story is also inconsistent with the court recorded timeline and even parts of her own Mother’s account. She claimed to have had a phone in her room. She claimed after Moore her behavior problems began when the court record shows the opposite. Not one of Moore’s accusers have passed reasonable scrutiny and only one claimed abuse and she represented by Allred has the least credible story. Moore was a handsome fairly popular local guy who spent the bulk of his 20s in Vietnam and then came back and finished his law degree. His interest in younger women wasn’t creepy nor were they creeped out by him. The evidence suggests that they were drawn to the young soldier and lawyer.
Its not surprising the Moore has enemies and fame chasers given his history as a judge and high profile Christian Conservative defender of the Constitution.
I’ve been wondering when something like this would come out.
He was West Point and an MP Officer in Vietnam.
And being stationed West of DaNang - lots of people here can tell us what that was like. Not for the faint of heart: VC sappers trying to attack the base were non-stop.
Anyone with issues would have been identified instantly and especially in an MP battalion.
So 5 years later we’re supposed to believe the guy went off the rails and crossed a bunch of lines?
Don’t think so. Think somebody is embellishing just a bit.
This is a world class take down attempt, financed by Soros and Bezos and facilitated by McConnell and Ryan.
None of whom are aware of what kind of person survived RVN service at that time, and especially in a hot zone.
You’re a real piece of work.
No wonder the left hates him. He has an honorable discharge and served his term in the Army dutifully. Democrats and liberals hate this.
Him not wanting to hang out in a brothel speaks to his character kinda like forging his name speaks to the creditability of his accusers. Does the yearbook make all the women liars? no but it makes one entertain the plausible scenario of an orchestrated smear. It’s another piece of data that points to conclusion he is on team America and thus must be taken out.
I take it by your series of posts on Judge Moore that when you were a “young, innocent American girl” you weren’t courted by an “honorable, decent, respectable and patriotic” man who was older than you and treated you with respect and took no liberties with you? An older man your mother approved of and considered a good “prospect”.
If my assumption is correct you do not understand the southern culture that existed 40 years ago.
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