Posted on 08/27/2004 9:45:27 AM PDT by Sprite518
I love this responce from a reader of the WSJ!
I guess I am a "draft dodger" the way the Democratic Party defines it, since I joined the Air Force ROTC so I could finish my bachelors degree rather than be drafted into the Army. I was commissioned and served 20 years, from 1973 to 1993, but since I didn't spend four months in Vietnam, I am not qualified to voice opinions on military matters, according to Mr. Kerry.
One of the things Mr. Kerry was defending in Vietnam was clearly not the First Amendment. Let me first say, as a Lt. Colonel, that Mr. Kerry's service record in Vietnam would be insufficient to get him promoted to Lt. Commander/Major, let alone to Captain/Colonel. His number of decorations is on a par with thousands of other veterans. His record, even if you take his word for it, was nothing outstanding. Mr. Kerry now claims he can be an effective commander-in-chief. He is either an idiot or a liar. If he has any awareness of how his 1971 criticism of servicemen still fighting or prisoners in Vietnam is perceived by military men and women, he would know that career military members see him as a male Jane Fonda, someone who gave aid and comfort to the enemies trying to kill his fellow Swift boat sailors and every other American in Vietnam.
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Amen!
I love it!!! Great job....telling it like it is....and flat out nailing it........
Boy do I hear you. I enlisted in the USAF and served 4 years. All of it during Vietnam. Kerry's camp seems to claim that since I appeared for duty in Montana as I was ordered to, and my superiours never sent me to Vietnam, that I "betrayed by country" as MaryAnne Marsh a Kerry slut explained to me earlier this week on one of the talk shows.
Of course since I built and targeted MinuteManII & III missiles topped with W-56 and W-62 warheads, my tour in 'Nam would have only lasted a four minutes instead of four months if they would have mobilized my unit.
We were real accurate :)
Wow, this guy doesn't pull any punches. He's 100% correct.
Also, I love his "male Jane Fonda" phrase.
This single sentence speaks volumes.
My husband is a draft dodger also. Worked three jobs to go to OSU in 1965, joined the USAF National Guard in 1967, activated in January of 1969 as full service, went to Korea for 13 months during the USS Pueblo crisis. Asked for a transfer to Vietnam because it was so incredibly boring in Korea but was disallowed. It makes us sick when we hear how only the privileged were able to join the guard.
Bump to a good article.
Kerry - 'male Jane Fonda' says it all.
Gawd, I love American names!
How DARE the author insinuate that Kerry isn't multi-capable; I'm of the mind that he is a lying idiot and good at both roles... ;=}
when i left the USAF i got a great job because a member of ANG was activated for Pubelo. He was gone 18 months came back worked for the company in another state till i moved then he took his old job. That is the way of many Reserve people.
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