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[nccjones]

If this has been posted before, I apologize. Pretty good letter from a classmate of Kerry's at Yale....

The Editor,
Wall Street Journal
Dear Sir/Madame:

I hope you will print this letter about my classmate, John Kerry. Thank you.

David Schlossberg, MD
Yale '66
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The Editor
The Wall Street journal

Dear Sir/Madame:

As a graduate of the Yale class of 1966, I resent the self-serving lies and misrepresentations advanced by my classmate John Kerry.
Herewith, a few corrections:

John Kerry has been using the Pershing name to dramatize his Vietnam experience, claiming to have been a close friend of Richard Pershing, the grandson of General (Black Jack) Pershing. Richard Pershing was a member of the Yale class of 1966, and he was killed in Vietnam shortly after we graduated. However, Kerry's constant references to his 'dearest' friend are exaggerated and exploitative. In fact, Dick Pershing and I roomed together for all 4 years at Yale. I don't remember John Kerry ever being in our room or even being a particular favorite of Dick's. In this regard, it is particularly revealing that a recent biography of General Pershing, Until The Last Trumpet Sounds (by Gene Smith), includes an entire chapter on Dick, primarily on his years at Yale; the name John Kerry does not appear.
The Pershing Family did know Kerry, but they disliked him intensely. This antipathy stemmed primarily from an incident at the Pershing home on Park Avenue not long after Dick's death: at a gathering of friends and family, Kerry worked the room with his anti-Vietnam message, incurring the undying enmity of Mr. and Mrs. Pershing and Dick's older brother Jack, a Green Beret. The family was shocked and insulted by Kerry's insensitivity.
Kerry has implied - as recently as the first Presidential debate -that he became disillusioned about Vietnam by his military experience.
However, as early as 1965, in his Junior year at Yale, he was giving anti-war speeches; and his Class Day Oration in 1966 - prior to graduation - criticized American involvement in Vietnam. These sentiments clearly antedated his Vietnam experience. So why did he join the Navy? He told some classmates that it would help his career.
The above pattern suggests a callous and opportunistic personality. Hardly what I would call Presidential.


David Schlossberg, MD Yale
'66

[SangRun Hunter]

It's a path he has always followed............
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Mad as Hell!

[Tom Poole]

[fortdixlover]

Ah, yes, Yale, that most revered of leftwing universities. Perhaps this is where the germs of pro-communism, treason and antiamericanism got implanted into Kerry's brain:

Who is Rod Swenson?

At Yale, as at several other Ivy League colleges, there's a fringe movement to divest the university from Israel. The Yale Daily News reports that the "alumni spokesman" for the divestment campaign is one "Rod Swenson MFA '69." According to the Web site of the defunct punk-rock band the Plasmatics:

With credentials that included an MFA from Yale, and creation of the legendary Captain Kink's live sex show theatre in Times Square, the Plasmatics was put together in 1978 by radical anti-artist Rod Swenson around lead singer Wendy O. Williams.

Williams, who died in 1998, "was a shock-rock queen who rose from the ranks of the porn industry where Rod Swenson, her companion of over 20 years, featured her in the live sex shows he promoted," according to this biography.
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"Millions For Defense, Not One Cent For Tribute" - Thomas Jefferson on paying ransom to Muslim corsairs (pirates).

[Darkhorse18]

If I'm not mistaken in that other book "my short four month Tour of Duty" skerry mentions that one of the reasons he volunteered for combat duty was so he could avenge the death of Dick Pershing. Now it turns out he hardly knew the man…….

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

But, isn't that just typical of everything he's ever done in his nearly worthless life?

His middle name should be "Exploitation."
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[4moreyears]

I never saw that letter and I'm not surprised by much...but that letter did it! That letter would make yet another great TV advertisement. The advertisement title could be: "The lament of Brutus 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.

[Jerald L. Parsoneault]

It is unbelievavble that Kerry and his camp can portray the actions of others as "being beneath contempt" and the media quickly covers it and ensures maximum exposure. Then an authoritative letter like this one is basically ignored -- even though it says everything we need to know about Kerry's lack of personal honor and integrity.

Nalt

[rhv5862]

Just more lies to add to the Kerry list. He has been doing and saying anything to further his political career his whole life. Truth is not a concept Kerry understands.

RHV

[kate]

[armyairbournebrat]

Maybe you could send that letter to that radio personality Laura A. (?) She mentions you guys on TV when she is on Fox. It is ironic I just read an article in Texas in a publication called esmas.com It has a kerry article in their talking about how he wanted out of the war and was depressed about his best friend "pershing". It also said the Mr. Kerry was a decorated war hero unlike George Bush and Clinton. What a load of crap. What has our country come to when we have to worry about a man with no integrity backbone or morals and the news that won't report the news.
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A VOTE FOR BUSH IS A VOTE AGAINST KERRY

[rhv5862]

You won't get any MSM outlet to print the letter or anything negative towards Kerry. Race is so tight according to polls it could go eather way.
God help us if Kerry wins.

RHV

[coldwarvet]

How does the media spin this? Dr. Schlossberg while on the other side of the pond comes out to slander Kerry. The media is so blinded with their agenda that they would rather consider the accountings of the enemy like Ted Koppel did on night line while ignoring the accounts of individuals like Dr. Schlossberg.

CWV
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Defender of the honor of those in harms way keeping us out of harms way.

"Peace is our Profession"
Strategic Air Command - Motto

USAF 75-79 Security Police

[greasepaint]

Skull n Bones,
apparently,
tough recruiting in '65.
...
Kerry was a legacy, or an original?

[PhantomSgt]

Hailing from New England myself, I was exposed to fabricators of New England Tall Tales during my formative years. Sitting around a campfire we would go around the circle and try to out do each other.

Apparently Kerry took this a step further and established tall tales as his campaign messages over the years. Well this Maniac can see right thru his tall tales and the reasons behind them.

If Kerry campaigned based on his political record he would only have a three-minute speech to a group of perspective voters. There is an old saying, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with **** **** (bovine defecation).” It appears that Kerry baffled the voters of the Commonwealth for many years and they never caught onto his telling of New England tall tales.
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Retired AF E-8

Independent that leans right of center.