John Kerry The Jungle Fighter

Vietnam- Stanley Karnow

[boothead]

While reading Stanley Karnow's book "Vietnam", I read the following on page 27. "John Kerry, later elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, recalled his return: "There I was, a week out of the jungle, flying from San Francisco to New York. I fell asleep and woke up yelling, probably a nightmare. The other passengers moved away from me---a reaction I noticed more and more in the months ahead. The country didn't give a sh*t about guys coming back, or what they'd gone through. The feeling toward them was, 'Stay away--don't contaminate us with whatever you've brought back from Vietnam.' "

I am puzzled. What does this mean? John was a "jungle fighter" beside being "Commander of a Swift boat? What was he doing in the jungle, looking for monkey " dung"? Did his Swift boat run aground? Four months in Vietnam and all this happening to one man. Wow.

[boothead]

Let's not go overboard---the rivers he patrolled were in the jungle

I don't deny he was on a river in the jungle. The passage in the book, to someone who did not know he was on a Swift boat, would think he was in the middle of the jungle, hand to hand. How do you think a vet who did fight hand to hand would feel about his tale??????

[TheCrusader]

"Let's not go overboard---the rivers he patrolled were in the jungle."

Now I'm beginning to understand. John Kerry is a sort of combination of Davy Crockett the Indian figher and his arch nemesis, Riverboat Captain Mike Fink. Wadda man. Still, I just don't see Crockett, had he lived, going back to the Alamo and throwing his coonskin cap over the wall.

[xlib]

The passage in the book, to someone who did not know he was on a Swift boat, would think he was in the middle of the jungle, hand to hand. How do you think a vet who did fight hand to hand would feel about his tale??????

I don't know, I wasn't over there. Can any freeper vets enlighten me? Did soldiers on the ground look down on the Swift boat guys?

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Vets bump

[Spotsy]

bump for reference

[GailA]

My son is reading this book now, there is another quote further back in the book from hanoi john. Look in the credits in the back of the book.

[bitt]

"My son is reading this book now, there is another quote further back in the book from hanoi john. Look in the credits in the back of the book"

C'mon, you can't keep us waiting breathlessly..

what's in the credits in the back of the book???????

[Rocky]

John, John, John of the Jungle... Look out for that tree!

[Vinnie]

Let's not go overboard---the rivers he patrolled were in the jungle. Kerry's told enough real whoppers that we don't have to reach like this.

I listened to part of his 'testimony' from back in the 70's. Hannity played part of it today.

He claimed he committed atrocities, including burning villages, lopping off heads, etc.

The first thing I thought was, 'I thought he was on a boat??'

[satan]

Saw one of JFKs campaign ads on TV. He "enlisted" when the country needed him. An enlisted officer? He can't even get that straight.

[GailA]

He doesn't live with us, I'll have to have him bring the book over and transcribe it to FR. I thought it was ironic that this was posted, as my son just read me that passage yesterday.

[river rat]

If that one brief run ashore for a couple of minutes, made that Boston Highbrow a "jungle fighter"......what did a grunt's 12/13 month romp through Indian Country - make of them?

Keep in mind folks....that I doubt VERY MUCH that Kerry ever slept one night in the Jungle, on the ground...
I would bet grandma's rum bearing cow that our brave "hero" slept EVERY night on white sheets and in a cot at least....

NO "jungle fighting" grunts had that luxury...
Kerry is a damnable, lying, worthless, traitorous SOB...and POS..

Semper Fi