Posted on 05/04/2009 4:14:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
You've contradicted yourself. A lot of people have taken enemy fire, and while that is an unquestionably brave thing to do, attributing that alone to being a hero makes the word hero exactly what you described - "it starts to lose it's special meaning."
On the other hand, a small few have done extraordinarily valorous things while they are bravely withstanding enemy fire. Those are the people we call heroes, and to whom we award heroic medals.
I'll leave him alone all he wants. I quoted his own words in that post that he wasn't a hero, and he reiterated that he was injured while picking up a live grenade. Did you click on that link? It Ann Coulter's response to the damnable lies the MSM perpetuated (and still seem to perpetuate, this is May 2009 right) about Cleland.
Amen to your facts about Kerry - and thanks to the Swift Boat and POWs for Truth, he was exposed (again, despite the MSM).
He was more honest about his injury than was the mass media.
That's why I included his quote in the link to the Ann Coulter piece.
Here we have an article, written this week, where another member of the MSM calls Cleland a "war hero" in order to defend a viscous, predatory, horrible pedophile. How do they choose to do that?
They falsely strut out a Democrat who they have constantly misrepresented for years as a "hero."
This nonsense has to stop, and when the MSM does it, they have to be called on it.
Not that is seems to be doing much good. The embarrassment of the press in this country is hard to achieve when that very press corps is shameless.
He seemed to have a quite a bit of this filth. Pretty creepy.
Kerry Vet Supporter Who Slammed The Swiftboat Vets Is Busted For Child Porn
Remember Wade Sanders? He was one of the band of brothersSwift Boat veterans who supported John Kerrys presidential campaign and appeared onstage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention before Kerrys reporting for duty speech.
On the campaign trail, Sanders was one of Kerrys nastiest surrogates. In August 2004, he likened the president to a trapped animal. In September, he compared Karl Rove and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth chief John ONeill to Josef Goebbels. He repeatedly referred to the president and his men as chicken hawks, an especially nasty term because it is slang for a child molester as well as a derisive term for a nonveteran who favors a strong defense.
June, 1970 -- Kerry joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national veterans group that is part of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City. VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, a former Black Panther, is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ. Hubbard soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the normal election process.
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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FYI: The Black Panthers were revolutionary communists/domestic terrorists.
From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
(note: I've been having trouble with this link lately, and might have to find another source for the Panther archives)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:
"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Photo link: "Jane Fonda and John Kerry at an anti-war rally in Valley Forge, Pa. (Leif Skoogfors/Corbis)"
[note: we're not permitted to post this pic without permission from the photographer. this is a different photo than one at top -etl]
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/kerry.asp
The photo is genuine. Here is what Jane Fonda herself had to say about it:
"My reaction is that the American people have had it with the big lie. Any attempt to link Kerry to me and make him look bad with that connection is completely false. We were at a rally for veterans at the same time. I spoke, Donald Sutherland spoke, John Kerry spoke at the end. I don't even think we shook hands."
Source for quote: same snopes article linked above
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Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general under democrat LBJ with convicted terrorist enabler/commie lawyer, Lynne Stewart, at an "anti-war" rally in Harlem NY on March 19, 2005, the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. The event was organized by the Workers World Party and "Troops Out Now". TON is an "anti-war" (pro-communist) Workers World Party front group.
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html
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Will Sanders be Chairman Maobama’s Veep pick for 2012? After all, Barry wants to ensure he keeps the NAMBLA vote/sarc.
How did he avoid the mandatory federal minimum?
If you consider anyone who got shot at in RVN a hero the your defination is counter to most of us who were there who got shot at! Kerry may have gotten shot at but I guarantee you it wasn't because he was a hero...by all accounts when the shooting started he went the other way as fast as his motor boat would take him. As for Sanders..what a pompous @$$...I had some email discussions with him during the campaign about his boy kerry's claims which anyone who was there knew was lies. I suspect Sanders got his hero medals the same way kerry got his...by writing them up himself!
Since John Kerry unquestionably took enemy fire on behalf the USA, I consider him a war hero, regardless of whatever else he is.
I believe your comments were meant for him.
Here's an example: Sanders' "review" of Tim Ziegler and my book on the 2004 anti-Kerry effort: Amazon link.
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