SwiftVets.com

[FMBass]

About two weeks ago, I began to read the posts here attempting to understand “newsworthy” things like:

Just how many times did Rassman fall off of whose friggin boat???

And how could a guy like Kerry get this far without somebody bothering to check the most basic facts?

Just recently, after spending many hours surfing here, I joined the conversation, finding an entire world of honestly patriotic viewpoints, informative links (I never would have come across: “My Vietnam Lessons” by David Horowitz), and all of it expressed in the familiar vernacular of the guys I served with (and explicitly trusted).

A deeper question now stirs in me: Did my service to this country truly end thirty years ago?

The Swift Boat Vets for Truth, by example, have answered this for me.

Thanks

As a quick aside, I have to compliment the site moderators. They keep this forum free of the garbage that is common to most other sites. They keep the topics “on message”: This conversation is about why John F. Kerry is “Unfit for Command”. They pick up rather quickly on duplicate threads.

This is a class site.
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ETR-3 USS Harold E. Holt
DE 1074 (1972-1975)

[carpro]

Once again we answer the call FM. But not with guns and hand grenades and blood. This time we use pens,phones,computers, and our voices.

This is one we can't afford to lose.

Our service to our country can never end, FM, as long as their is breath in our bodies.
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"If he believes his 1971 indictment of his country and his fellow veterans was true, then he couldn't possibly be proud of his Vietnam service."

[cipher]

Our Lives, our Fortunes, our Sacred Honor....

Some things never change.

And when you took that oath, it was: "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

I don't see a time limit specified. I'm pretty sure it's for life.
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USMC 69-72, 7th Comm, 3rd MarDiv, FMFPAC
US Army 75-79, 97th Sig, SHAPE, NATO
Arkansas National Guard 79
Defense contractor for US Navy, SSPO, SP-20, SP-24, OP-12 84-92

[bagpiper]

cipher,

I don't remember anybody 'unoathing' me when I got out....



WHO UH...

DM Lambert
ex-SP4 '72-'75

[LewWaters]

Since I feel everyone in this country owes it something, whether the oath was taken or not, service, in one regard or another, never ends. I don't remember any time limits being placed upon the oath we all took.
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Clark County Conservative