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My wife has told me mant times "People Don't Change". She's correct as you can see by the e-mail below that was forward to me today. I checked out the authors website and he looks legitimate to me.

"Observations by an Air Force Pilot.
I'm confident that in approximately 15 minutes this article will be in the
inboxes of every resident of the free world and maybe even a few people in
France. Chris Thomas, Air Force Pilot:
I would like to add my two cents about my John Kerry experience. During my
career as an Air Force pilot, I spent two years flying a small twin engine
prop plane around the Pacific from my base in Okinawa, Japan. On one trip
we had to fly Senator Kerry, his congressional aide, and a Navy Captain
(Vietnam, A-4 fighter pilot) who was also in Kerry's party to various
locations in Vietnam and Cambodia as part of the MIA/POW talks. When I
met him, he was wearing a shirt with a picture of his sailboat on it. I
told him I had a 27' sailboat in Okinawa, he remarked "Oh I never sail on
anything less than 135 feet."
Thanks, Senator, "I feel even better about the meager salary I get paid
for flying you around the Pacific."
When we first flew him into Phnom Penh, he went to the back of the
airplane and grabbed the pizza that was put aside for the crew and passed
it around to his staff. He was never offered any pizza because they were
supposed to have lunch with the Cambodian government when we landed. The
pizza was the crew's only meal for that day and he ate it. Then when we
picked him up in Cambodia, he was an hour late getting to the airport.
Because fuel was an issue, we could not start the engines and therefore
the air conditioning until he arrived. Phnom Penh at that time was over
100 degrees with 95% humidity and we were basically
sitting in a greenhouse behind the cockpit windows.
When he finally did arrive, we were wringing out our clothes from the
perspiration. He walks out of the air conditioned car, into the airplane
and asks us "Could you guys get the air-conditioning running, I'm a little
warm?" The other pilot had to physically restrain me from going back there
and picking a fight.
Then we took him into Noi Bai airfield in Hanoi.
After we picked him up the next day (he stayed the night in Vietnam, we
stayed in Bangkok) we taxied out, ran up the engines for take off and
noticed that our prop rpm was vibrating all over the place. We taxied off
to the side to look at it, but there was a good possibility that there was
an engine malfunction and the engine may fail if we took off with it.
Well, Mr. Senator sticks his head up in the cockpit and says "This plane
WILL take off, I have a press conference in Bangkok in three hours!"
(Maybe this is an indication of how he will run the FAA).
American service members lives be damned, we had our Senatorial orders. We
ran the engines again, and did not have the problem, so we took off and
made it back. During the flight, he told everyone how he had taken a
Cessna (a small General aviation plane) up with a fighter pilot, and the
fighter pilot remarked that Kerry was one of the best pilots he had ever
seen. I don't know about other pilots out there, but it's hard to imagine
a little, single-engine prop plane pilot being able to show the "right
stuff."
After Kerry left the plane, the Navy Captain came up to us, apologized and
said basically that "he knows Kerry is a jerk" and that we should be glad
we don't have to deal with him every day. Your choice folks.
Elections in November. You want a mega-millionaire egomaniac
it's-all-about-me crew-eating-pizza-ite like Kerry or maybe a Green Party
candidate like Ralph Nader? Or, God forbid, maybe even re-elect George
Bush, a nice God fearing Christian bent on protecting us from terrorist
attacks on US soil?
Hmmm, let's see?

Charles J. Walsh,
Special Agent, FBI (Retired)
Forensic Consulting Associates of New England, LLC
Post Office Box 6008
Manchester, New Hampshire 03108-6008
Telephone: (Toll Free) 1-877-322-6300
Cell Phone: 1-603-661-0890
Fax: 1-603-218-6330
www.forensicconsulting.com
charlie@forensicconsulting.com "
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USMC 58-69 Quang Tri, Dong Ha, & Khe Sanh II, 1stMAW Vietnam 1969

ml2517 · Seaman Recruit Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 9

How about you strap on a parachute and take him for another trip? Very Happy

azpatriot · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:26 am Post subject:

LOL Yeah you could out flank him with another pizza Cool

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Chuck Z Ombie AC2000 · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:31 am Post subject:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/pizza.asp
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scotty61 · LCDR Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 419 Location: Glyndon MN

This has been floating around the net for a while, maybe true, maybe not. But if you want insight into the true charactor of John Kerry all you hae to do is go back to when the Secret Service agent cut off a skier from getting too close to his Highness and caused Prince John to take a spill. His Royal Highness's response? An epithet laden outburst directed at the man who has sworn to take a bullet for his Highness, because in his words "I never fall". Imagine that; 40 years of sking and never a spill. Must be some kind of a record, maybe even deserving of a medal.

MikeM · Ensign Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 71

Man, all this stuff is adding up to resemble stories heard about inbred royalty from the middle ages! Shocked

nakona · Lieutenant Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 242

Chuck54 · PO1 Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 466

Read the description in Unfit for Command of Kerry doing his cameo appearance at the 2003 reunion of the swiftboat veterans. It makes the pilots story completely credible.
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Stevie · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:54 am Post subject:

I say take him back up in that plane....

there's a reporter in MA that has covered kerry for years (howard? he was on BPR during DNC convention) anyway, he tells of things like kerry going into a place and cutting into line and when someone objects saying 'do you know who I am?'.....

say: not really, are you Jay Leno's brother? an Osmond brother?

Stevie · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:03 am Post subject:

I checked out the snopes site.... there it was.... Howie Carr is the name

he's a radio talk show host.... and evidently kerry's 'cut in line' action is

a regular for him! what a jerk!