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[J. Toy]

From Steyn Online:

GORDON SWIFTFOOT
In partisan games, some of Kerry's present and future troubles could be regarded as comical, but as I read about the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, I feel sadness and even melancholy for what might have been. In that mood, I submit this song to the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." The last two lines of poetic justice are original to the song.

The Wreck of the Johnny Fitzgerald
The legend lived on in words carefully sown
Of a big hero serving his country.
But truth, it is said (to a democrat’s dread)
Turns John Kerry’s November to gloomy.
When a load of embellishment thirty years on
Showed the claims of a braggart near empty.
A tactic thought shrewd was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early.

He once was the pride of the Democrat side
He would impress the vets, they all reasoned
As war stories go, his was bigger than most
So they discounted murmurs of treason
With young John O’Neil he had once traded words
So he said “Bring it on” to his breathren.
And later that month when the Swift Vets were heard
Could it be a remorse he’d been feelin’?

Their book and their ads made a tattle-tale sound
And the truth broke over the railing
And every man knew, and the candidate too,
T’was the loss of November come stealin’.
The dawn came later as the press chose to wait
When the gales of derision came slashin’.
When veterans came with their stories of pain
In the face of his anti-war actions.

Then defense was tried, yet the charges ignored, he said
Brothers, you’re all Bush’s liars.
As polling was made, his main hatchway caved in, he said
Please, George, call off all your hires.

And then it was seen truth as stubborn old thing
Put his ship and his party in peril.
And later that fall in a hurricane’s squall
Came the wreck of the Johnnie Fitzgerald.

Does any one know where the hubris arose
To assume he would stand up to scrutiny?
The pundits all say he’d have gone all the way
If he’d had more than falsified litany.

He might have corrected or apologized,
Not have said “I’m reporting for duty.”
But all that remains is the faces and names
Of the veterans who saw him more clearly.

In a musty old hall where the liberals pray
In the Anti-War Warriors Cathedral
The church bell should chime for mistakes of the times
And the thousands of names on a black wall.
John Kerry did choose not to heal the old wounds,

Rode his Swiftboat as far as he’d take her.
And all iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the Gales of November remembered.

Linda
Boise, Idaho
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Corpsman, 1969-1973

[NortonPete]

Great!!
Thanks

[cjg]

That was really well done! I could read and remember the tune.
Thanks.
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Swiftvets rock!

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

OUTSTANDING!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!

Got that ol' eye-sweat thing going, though.
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[The Balloon Artist]

^ applauds

Puts on own thinking cap

Everybody reading the swift boat veterans
(do the locomotion)
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What about John Kerry's four months in Vietnam qualify him to be president?
Al Gore was there for five.