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"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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On 06 Mar 2004 18:38:56 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:

This is a very emotional issue for me. I think of absent friends who
still lie
in foreign graves. Then I think of those who could have gone and
didn't.
And
no amount of discussion will convince me that these two calibers of men
were
equal

Arthur Kramer

And, yet you don't seem to respect the opinion of those of us who
served in SEA that the actions of Lt John F. Kerry after his
exceptionally brief service were to the detriment of half a million of
his brothers in arms who were still in harms way. Which doesn't even
begin to address the several hundred who were languishing in NVN
prison camps while he gave aid and comfort to the enemy.

Don't play the lost comrades card with me.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8


Not that I'm a big fan of Kerry, I don't believe voicing one's opinion
against and unjust war where over 50,000 of our brothers died is giving
"aid
and comfort to the enemy" Jane Fonda he "ain't"Not even close...........

He did not just voice his opinion. He presented testimony to congress
(written not by him but by a former speechwriter for RFK named Adam
Walinski) which parroted the since-discredited offal that came form the
"Winter Soldier Investigation", which he had attended and which was indeed
sponsored by Ms. Fonda. Suggest you read the pertinent passages from B.G.
Burkett's "Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes
and its History" regarding Mr. Kerry and his committment to the antiwar
cause. Burkett wrote this book in 1998, long before Mr. Kerry became a
presidential candidate, and he only discusses him in passing (the book
concentrates more on revealing those who created fake Vietnam war records
for themselves and dispelling a lot of popular myths about Vietnam
veterans). He notes that friends of Mr. Kerry did not notice him as being
particularly disturbed by his (short) combat tour, or that he was
particularly anti-war--but one did note that he was "a very charismatic
fellow looking for a good issue." How much of his anti-Vietnam sentiment was
heartfelt and how much was a product of his desire to gain publicity to
support his political ambitions is the question for which we have no answer.

Brooks



T3