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[Brody]

Celebration Speech
John Kerry, speaking at a Martin Luther King (search) Day celebration in Virginia last year, said, "I remember well April 1968, I was serving in Vietnam (search), a place of violence, when the news reports brought home to me and my crewmates the violence back home, and the tragic news that one of the bullets flying that terrible spring took the life of [Dr. King]."

That date was April 4th, 1968, but according to Kerry's own Website, it was not until November 17, 1968, that he reported for duty in Vietnam.

link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130231,00.html

[llano]

He claims his time on the USS Gridley as a tour in Vietnam.
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[4moreyears]

http://www2.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5710
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kerry returned to the United States on July 22, 1971, held a press conference publicly calling on President Nixon... for the surrender of the United States to North Vietnam.

[Brody]

[Brody]

Crap, sorry, Moderators, please feel free to kill my duplicate thead.

[Tom Poole]

Does anyone know precisely when Kerry and the Gridley were in the Vietnam theatre? Seems to me it was early 1968. He probably lied anyway.
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[4moreyears]

Abbreviated kerry quote:


"I remember well April, 1968 - I was serving in Vietnam -- a place of violence -- when the news reports brought home to me and my crewmates the violence back home - and the tragic news that one of the bullets flying that terrible spring took the life of that unabashedly maladjusted citizen.

I've often thought - what if he'd lived? But that's a question we can't answer - except to the extent to which we can commit ourselves to make things as he would have wanted and as we thought they might have been. That is the challenge - today more than ever.

We should challenge ourselves to ask the question not what would Dr. King have done had he lived, but what would he want us to do the time we have left. I think if Martin Luther King was here today in Richmond he would want more of us feel the kind of maladjustment he felt - and to use the rights and responsibilities of citizenship he helped secure to build a stronger America.

I think we need a new kind of citizenship - Dr. King's citizenship -- an impatient citizenship."

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I think we need a new kind of citizenship - John O'Neill's type of citizenship -- an impatient citizenship yearning for an accounting of past injustices done to honorable men by a carpet bagger named kerry.
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kerry returned to the United States on July 22, 1971, held a press conference publicly calling on President Nixon... for the surrender of the United States to North Vietnam.

[Scott]

Please copy and paste your comments to this duplicate thread:

http://www2.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5323

so that I can close this one.

Duplicate threads take up space and bump other topics off of the front page - that's why we try to hard to keep the duplicates eliminated.
The front page of this particular forum needs to have as many different topical, news-based threads going on as wide a variety of events as possible.

Thank you!
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[Navy_Navy_Navy]

It's on the unofficial USS Gridley page, I'll bet.

Brody, no prob - as you can see, duplicate topics are just "one of those things" around here.
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