[GCFL-discuss] WAR STORY

Tue Feb 17 21:17:49 CST 2004

Frank he has to get us out of Iraq if he wants to have any chance of a second term. The problem is the Iraqi's won't be ready to go it alone. When we leave all hell will break loose in power struggles. 
I wish your son well, he shouldn't have to do two tours in a war zone.

Dave
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  To: Shirley Heit 
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  Thanks for your comments Dave.  I just got back from seeing my son off to Iraq for the second time.  He isn't too anxious to go ("It's not the best tourist spot in the world, dad."), but, he also said, "At least the fighting is over there and not here."   We certainly hope Pres. Bush keeps his word to turn everything over to the Iraqi's by the end of June.

  Frank

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  To: Frank McMullin 
  CC: "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List" 
  Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Fw: WAR STORY 
  Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:03:39 -0500 
  "Many good and decent people opposed the Vietnam War. Many of us who fought 
  it hated it, too. I know I did." 
  Its called free speach... A lot of our forfathers fought and died for it. I 
  don't agree with what Jane Fonda did but I'ed go to war to protect her right 
  to do it, short of her commiting treasion. The same for Kerry. 
  Do we really belong in this war that we're in now???? 
  Dave 
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  Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 1:12 PM 
  Subject: [GCFL-discuss] Fw: WAR STORY 
  > Thought this was interesting. 
  > Eagle 
  > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
  > 
  > One man's story about Kerry 
  > 
  > Now that U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is claiming the veteran vote based 
  > on his war record, both sides of that story should be told. 
  > 
  > To appreciate the dark side of Kerry's war record, you should know a few 
  > things about Vietnam veterans. 
  > 
  > The public and the press make a mistake when they divide us into decorated 
  > veterans like Kerry and then all the others. 
  > 
  > We like to think of ourselves as brothers -- those who fought the enemy 
  > directly in combat and those who provided vital support in protected areas 
  > that were in many cases exposed to attack. 
  > 
  > Even today, when two Vietnam veterans meet for the first time, they might 
  > say, "Welcome home, brother!" because many were never welcomed home. They 
  > met the cold shoulder of an ungrateful nation on their return. 
  > 
  > Those of us whose job was combat feel an even deeper sense of brotherhood. 
  > We learned to trust our brothers on the ground, on the water and in the 
  air 
  > to do the right things to protect one another, a bond that cannot be fully 
  > explained in words. 
  > 
  > We quietly feared dying in battle, but there was something we feared even 
  > more. We knew if we should panic under fire and fail to do our job, we 
  might 
  > lose our brothers' trust or we might lose their lives, and this we feared 
  > more than anything. 
  > 
  > Like Kerry, I have a couple of medals, but who has what medal among combat 
  > veterans doesn't make a dime's worth of difference between us. What 
  matters 
  > is that we are, for the rest of our life, brothers who kept faith with one 
  > another in a miserable war. 
  > 
  > A young Kerry, however, broke faith with his brothers when he returned to 
  > the United States. With the financial aid of Jane Fonda, he led highly 
  > visible protests against the war. He wrote a book that many considered to 
  be 
  > pro-Hanoi, titled "The New Soldier." 
  > 
  > The cover photo of his book depicted veterans in a mismatch of military 
  > uniforms mocking the legendary image of Marines raising the American flag 
  > atop Mount Suribachi in the 1945 battle for Iwo Jima, holding the American 
  > flag upside down. 
  > 
  > Kerry publicly supported Hanoi's position to use our POWs as a bargaining 
  > chip in negotiations for a peace agreement. Kerry threw what appeared to 
  be 
  > his medals over a fence in front of the Capitol building in protest, on 
  > camera of course, but was caught in his lie years later when his medals 
  > turned up displayed on his office wall. 
  > 
  > Many good and decent people opposed the Vietnam War. Many of us who fought 
  > it hated it, too. I know I did. 
  > 
  > But like Fonda's infamous visit to Hanoi in 1972, Kerry's public actions 
  > encouraged our enemy at a time they were killing America's sons. Decades 
  > after the war was done, interviews with our former enemy's leaders 
  confirmed 
  > that public protests in the United States, like Kerry's, played a 
  > significant role in their strategy. 
  > 
  > Many of us wonder which of our brothers who died young would be alive 
  today 
  > had people like Jane Fonda and Kerry objected to the war in a more 
  suitable 
  > way. 
  > 
  > Now that it serves his ambition to be president, Kerry reminds the public 
  of 
  > his war record daily. But the dark side of that record is not being told. 
  > Many Vietnam veterans have taken notice, and many of us will vigorously 
  > oppose Kerry's election to any office. 
  > 
  > Terry L. Garlock of Peachtree City was a Cobra helicopter pilot in 
  Vietnam. 
  > He received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Distinguished Flying Cross. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > 
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