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Robert Cooper
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 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 10:48 am Post subject: The Boston Common 1971 |
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My first duty station was at Quonset Pt. Rhode Island in 1971. I frequently went to Boston every other weekend. I remember particularly one summer day at the park at the Boston Common where I was approached by a few members of the Veterans Against the Vietnam War. In the course of this encounter, I was left with the impression that they had actually had members of their group that joined the military in order to have the credentials to speak against it. It was the buzz on our ship that John Kerry was an anti-war activist before he enlisted, had political help as to where he served and how he got out, all for the purpose of having the credentials to speak before Congress. This was too far fetched for me to accept back then - but, today I'm not too sure. Wouldn't it be devastating to discover that Kennedy had arranged Kerry to be planted - maybe even pulling some strings for medals and everything!
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Spiess
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject: Re: The Boston Common 1971 |
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| Robert Cooper wrote: | | My first duty station was at Quonset Pt. Rhode Island in 1971. I frequently went to Boston every other weekend. I remember particularly one summer day at the park at the Boston Common where I was approached by a few members of the Veterans Against the Vietnam War. In the course of this encounter, I was left with the impression that they had actually had members of their group that joined the military in order to have the credentials to speak against it. It was the buzz on our ship that John Kerry was an anti-war activist before he enlisted, had political help as to where he served and how he got out, all for the purpose of having the credentials to speak before Congress. This was too far fetched for me to accept back then - but, today I'm not too sure. Wouldn't it be devastating to discover that Kennedy had arranged Kerry to be planted - maybe even pulling some strings for medals and everything! |
Well I always scoffed at conspiracies, but the pictures o Kerry with the Kennedys, the lies, the fake medals, and well after Clinton, I hear ya Im not so sure either. |
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Beatrice1000
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004
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Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 1:59 pm Post subject: Re: The Boston Common 1971 |
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| Robert Cooper wrote: | | It was the buzz on our ship that John Kerry was an anti-war activist before he enlisted.. |
There's all kinds of info out there about Kerry's love of the Kennedys and drive to be with them.
Also, he had his own "tendencies" against the war even during the time he was enlisting! (any surprise here from mr flip-flop man?)
Below, is a quickbit I just grabbed off the net:
Boston Globe, “A privileged youth, a taste for risk”
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff, 6/15/2003
Upon his graduation in 1966, Kerry was given the honor of delivering the class oration. Many at Yale noticed that this young man, on his way to becoming a commissioned officer in Vietnam, was critical of the war -- and the use of American military might against communist regimes.
``What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism,'' Kerry said in the oration. ``And this Vietnam War has found our policy makers forcing Americans into a strange corner . . . that if victory escapes us, it would not be the fault of those who lead, but of the doubters who stabbed them in the back -- notions all too typical of an America that had to find Americans to blame for the takeover in China by the communists, and then for the takeover in Cuba.''
Then, in a sentence that harkened back to the Nazi aggression that his mother had fled, he said: ``The United States must, I think, bring itself to understand that the policy of intervention that was right for Western Europe does not and cannot find the same application to the rest of the world.''
In what may have been an allusion to his own plans to enlist, Kerry added: ``We have not really lost the desire to serve. We question the very roots of what we are serving.'' |
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