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olympian2004

Over the past few months we have come to learn about many of our outstanding men and women who served our country in Vietnam. One very interesting story we discovered is that of Don Blankenship, a proud member of "The Brown Water Navy", (Mobile Riverine Force). His site is located at:

http://www.rivervet.com/

This site is a history lesson for people like myself and thoroughly enjoyed browsing every link.

You can make a small donation to keep this excellent site up and running.
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Tony in Boulder, Colorado

Navymomx2 · Lt.Jg. Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 149 Location: Washington

olympian,

You are right this is a good site, I ran across it a few years ago and haven't been in recently, WOW, Don has really been busy since I was last there.

He has some info that I really enjoyed as my Uncle, one of my Hero's was a part of the Brown Water Navy, he was with Riv Ron 9 on a Monitor and was involved in at least 2 really nasty fights, one of them was the bloodiest of the year with 30 WIA.

You are correct in that there were many outstanding men and women who served in Vietnam. I have a few friends who are Vietnam Vets and I am honored to stand by and know each of them. They are good people, not the horrific monsters that Kerry and people like him tried to make them out to be.
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Honor, Courage and Committment
something John F. Kerry doesn't have

Ladder Yankee 33 · Ensign Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Cumming, GA

Olympian, you can learn the history of the MRF @ www.mrfa.org. The Mobile Riverine Force owned the Delta! We didn't loose the Vietnam. John F. Kerry and his friends did.
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mtboone · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject:

olympian2004 · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:23 pm Post subject:

Hello Ladder Yankee 33,

Thanks for that link for the The Mobile Riverine Force. We are really looking forward to learning more about your group.

Thanks,

Tony
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Tony in Boulder, Colorado

rhv5862 · PO2 Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 379 Location: Massachusetts

Thanks for the link. It is a great site.

RHV

Navy wife · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:37 am Post subject:

I am so glad to hear about these two sites! They are really excellent and I will be adding a link at swiftboatarchives.

BuffaloJack · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:23 am Post subject:

Those are superb.
There are so many good sites.
I hadn't seen those two before.
Thanks.
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Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

The mrfa.org site also has a very nice bulletin board in which I've lurked since I started doing research on Kerry - February, I think?

Really nice people there. I don't post - I'm not even registered. I have just enjoyed the stories and the admin there is an absolute peach of a person - very helpful and kind.
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