Originally posted by SunTracker
I am a Republican. Why anyone would attack Kerry's war record is beyond me. Kerry saved a man's life, his boat scored 20 kills, then Kerry testified in front of congress to get our country out of the Vietnam War.
He might deserve the Presidency just for doing that.
His commanders are attacking his war record. I guess they would know. His doctors are attacking his purple hearts, they treated him, I guess they'd know. He put himself in for every award he got. I know several dozen Vietnam veterans who declined decorations ranging from the Purple Heart to the Silver Star. Kerry is the ONLY ONE I've ever even heard of who put himself in for a Purple Heart for a wound that required a band aid, or who put himself in for a Silver Star. This guy ain't Audie Murphy, he ain't even John F. Kennedy, and anyone who thinks he is must be a moron.
Hell, my father had multiple shrapnel wounds from mortar fire in Korea, he was in the hospital for them, and he didn't even get a Purple Heart.
He testified in front of Congress because it was popular to be a war protester, and not popular to be a war hero. And he lied. He went before Congress with known imposters who were not only not there, they were not even soldiers. For figuratively spitting on the graves of soldiers who died there, and for disgracing the uniform, he deserves to have his prettythang kicked. For helping to get the country to pull out of Vietnam after some 55,000 soldeirs died there, instead of going to Hanoi and stomping Ho Chi Minh flat, he deserves to be made a hero of communist Vietnam.
Maybe we should not have gone to Vietnam, but when we did, we should have gone there to win, and once we got there we should have done the job. Anything less is an insult to each and every one of those 55,000 plus soldiers who lost their lives.
