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LewWaters · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:27 am Post subject: Kerry's Vietnam Journal

After reading that Kerry was claiming to be in Cambodia while Nixon was telling the nation we weren't, some bells went off in my head at something I read earlier. I searched and found what was bothering me.

Kerry kept a journal while in Vietnam, he claims. The Boston Globe ran excerpts from the journal and this is what I read;

George F. Thompson · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 4:50 am Post subject: Kerrys Viet Nam Journal

Good point Lew, I won a bet with a wannabe once. I referred to a weapon as being a .51 cal. This Guy was adamant that no such weapon existed, only a .50 cal according to him. I explained how the soviets/warsaw pact countries used a 12.7mm that we referred to as as .51 cal. It was something to do with battle field logistics, supposedly their 12.7mm version of a Ma Deuce would chamber a NATO/US .50 round. I then bet this dude he had never seen a 14.5mm or a ZSU-23mm, Quad in action.
The sad part is that large portion of Americans still think of the Viet Nam veteran's as a malcontents, social reprobates. Kerrys lies, from back in 1971 are still following us. What realy scares me is the is there are a lot of impressionable 18 year olds who are being encouraged to vote and the majority of the baby boomers who support Kerry, the only tracers those jack asses have seen were when they were tripping on acid. God help Us.

Remember: Friendly Fire, Isn't!

George F. Thompson

coffee · Founder Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 66

Lew wrote:

lobster · Seaman Recruit Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 14

>> The sad part is that large portion of Americans still think of the Viet Nam veteran's as a malcontents, social reprobates.

Most Americans, especially over 50, now have enormous respect for Vietnam veterans. There have several excellent documentaries about veterans, their difficult combat experiences, and some returning to Vietnam to try and make their peace. People now know some veterans weren't treated well when they came home, and many were virtually ignored. That certainly isn't the case today. Any Vietnam veteran should stand tall and be proud of their service to this country!

republicanveteran · Commander Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 333 Location: Texas

Another lie?? I just posted one about his riding a bike into East Berlin. How many more are there?

MikeWinn · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: Kerrys Viet Nam Journal

Fphamm · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: Kerrys Viet Nam Journal

Indianbaboon · Lieutenant Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 234

kate · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject:

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/journal_day2.shtml
From that same site...one day from his journal
Very long read, but gives some insight of Kerry.

~snip
Ahead lies the APL from which you will refuel and steal a morning meal. Both operations completed you pass from the Navy and again enter the world of beauty that surrounds you as you move up the meandering channel of the main water route to Cambodia. Its daylight now and moving with you are junks and barges and swamps of all sizes and shapes and colors and within each person with a world of his own fears and hopes and aspirations. Simplicity characterizes everything around you and because of this an unassuming peace envelopes the fatigue with which you (were) traveling). A small canal looms up on the left and methodically, as though the chart by your side were slave to the wheel, you turn the boat into it and enter still a more perfect world of shapes and colors.

~snip
It's cool now and the evening has closed around you to become full night. The night for once is comforting and you take a coke and some peanut butter and jelly and go up on the roof of the cabin whit your tape recorder and sit for a while, quietly, watching flares float silently through the sky and flashes announce disquieting intent somewhere in the distance. You call down to one of your men and ask him to draft a message to the Admiral in Command of all Naval Forces in Vietnam and also to the Commander of Market Time. IT says "Merry Christmas from the most inland Market Time unit." You hope that they'll court marshal you or something because that would make sense. But the night soothes everything and the people and things that are close to you dart through the mind and bring the only warmth and peace that there is. Visions of sugar plums really do dance through your head and you think of stockings and snow and roast chestnuts and fires with birch logs and all that is good and warm and real. It's Christmas Eve.
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minnie presley · Commander Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 307

I would like to see a as many swiftvets and other vietnam vets be in cincinnata, when he speaks at the VFW convention, and show their protest against this traitor, it sicken me to thinkl he will even be allowed to address this group,