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Senator Denton's comments on Kerry


Subject: Denton on Kerry

This is an excellent article that should be read by all, regardless of
your politics. Jeremiah Denton has a special perspective on world
affairs that needs to become know by all Americans. This NEEDS to be
passed on to ALL that you know.

It's important to know/remember who Jeremiah Denton is before you
read what he says about John Kerry. Who is Jeremiah Denton?
In 1973, Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. walked off an Air Force C-141 aircraft
to freedom after being held captive in North Vietnam for more than
seven years.

Born in 1924 in Mobile Alabama, Denton graduated from the United
States Naval Academy in 1946. In June 1965, he was assigned to Attack
Squadron 75 on the USS Independence flying the Grumman A-6
Intruder. On 18 July 1965, while pulling up after leading a bombing
attack on enemy installations near Thanh Hoa, he was shot down and
captured by North Vietnamese troops. While held prisoner, Denton
became the first American subjected to four years of solitary
confinement. In 1966, during a television interview by the North
Vietnamese and broadcast on American television, Denton gained
national attention when, while being questioned, he blinked his eyes in
Morse code, repeatedly spelling out the covert message
"T-O-R-T-U-R-E".

During his captivity he frequently served as the senior American
military officer in numerous camps in and around Hanoi. On 12
February 1973, Denton was released and promoted to rear admiral
in April 1973. In 1976 Denton's Vietnam experience was chronicled in
the book When Hell Was in Session, and in an NBC movie of the same
title, which won the1979 Peabody Award. In 1979 Denton retired from
the Navy as Commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College and
returned to Mobile, Alabama. During his 34 years of military service, he
received numerous awards and honors, to include: the Navy Cross, three
Silver Stars, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and two Purple Hearts.
In November 1980, Denton became the first retired flag officer ever
elected to the U.S. Senate. Some of his major committee assignments
included: the Judiciary Committee, the Armed Services Committee, and
the Veterans Affairs Committee. In 1983, Denton founded the National
Forum Foundation dedicated to the concept of One Nation under God,
the institution of the family, welfare reform, and peacekeeping and
humanitarian affairs.

In 1987, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to be Chairman
of the Presidential Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense.
Among many other legislative accomplishments, Denton established the
highly acclaimed international aid program known as The Denton
Program, responsible for transporting over 20 million pounds of critical
equipment and supplies to needy people throughout the world.
Denton currently serves as President of the National Forum Foundation
and lectures on national and international affairs. He and his wife Jane
reside in Mobile, Alabama. They have 7 children and 15 grandchildren.
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Who is John Kerry? 03/09/04 By JEREMIAH DENTON (Rear Admiral,
US Navy, Retired) (Former POW) Special to the Register

Knowing that I served in the U.S. Senate with John Kerry and that, like
him, I am a veteran of the Vietnam War, many people have asked me
what I think of him, particularly now that he's the apparent presidential
nominee of the Democratic Party. When Kerry joined me in the Senate,
I already knew about his record of defamatory remarks and behavior
criticizing U.S. policy in Vietnam and the conduct of our military
personnel there. I had learned in North Vietnamese prisons how much
harm such statements caused. To me, his remarks and behavior
amounted to giving aid and comfort to our Vietnamese and Soviet
enemies. So I was not surprised when his subsequent overall voting
pattern in the Senate was consistently detrimental to our national
security.

Considering his demonstrated popularity during the Democratic
primaries, I earnestly hope the American people will soberly consider
Kerry's qualifications for the presidency in light of his position and
record on both our cultural war at home and on national security issues.
To put it bluntly, John Kerry exemplifies the very reasons that I
switched to the Republican Party. Like the majority in his political party,
he has proven by his words and actions that his list of priorities -- his
ideas on what most needs to be done to improve this country -- are
almost opposite to my own. Here are two issue areas that I consider top
priorities: the war over the soul of America, and national security.
Top priority should be placed on an effort to recover our most
fundamental founding belief that our national objectives, policies and
laws should reflect obedience to the will of Almighty God.

Our Declaration of Independence, our national Constitution and each of
the states' constitutions stress that basic American national principle.
For about 200 years, the entire country, both parties and all branches
of government understood that principle and tried to follow it, if
imperfectly. For some 50 years, our nation's opinion-makers, our courts
and, gradually, our politicians have been abandoning our historical effort
to be "one nation under God" in favor of becoming "one nation without
God," with glaringly unfavorable results.

I believe our political leaders, educational system, parents and
opinion-makers must all return to teaching the truth most emphasized by
our Founding Fathers. George Washington called religious belief
indispensable to the prosperity of our democracy. William Penn said,
"Men must choose to be governed by God or condemn themselves to be
ruled by tyrants."

And when asked what caused the Civil War, President Lincoln said, "We
have forgotten God." In these days we have not only forgotten God, we
are by our new standards of government and culture rejecting him as the
acknowledged creator and as the endower of our rights. As a result, we
are suffering cultural decay and human unhappiness. The decline of the
institution of the family is the most obvious result. Perhaps the current
movie, "The Passion of the Christ," will help many to come to realize the
cost of the redemption of our sins, and the destructiveness of sin.
Let's remember that over 95 percent of Americans during our founding
days were Christians, and though our Founding Fathers stipulated that no
one was to be compelled to believe in any religion, and also stipulated
that there would be no single Christian denomination installed as a
national religion, there was no question that our laws were to be firmly
based on the Judean Ten Commandments and on Christ's mandate to
love your neighbor as you love yourself. That setup brought us amazing
success as a nation, lifting us from our humble beginnings, through crisis
after crisis, to become the leading nation of the world.

Now, though, we are throwing away the very source of our strength and
greatness. Yet I am not giving up on our country. I am encouraged at the
stand and the attitude of our president, and inspired by his courage.
There are many more of his stripe in Washington now. Though Rome
and other empires have decayed and fallen, the cultural war in the
United States can and should be won by the majority of Americans -- a
majority to whom Kerry and the Democrats disdainfully refer to as the
"far right." They are people who believe in God and in the original
concept of "one nation under God."

As a nation, we are now at the point of no return. The GOOD GUYS are
finally angry enough to join the fray, and I pray we are not too late.
John Kerry is not among the good guys. The Democratic Party isn't,
either.
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All the above Officially come out in support of John Kerry for President of the USA.