Originally posted by guttboy
Sixpence....
I was just curious....was not meant as a slam whatsoever I hope you werent directing that at me?
No, Rino. I never knew Kerry did anything to hurt his fellow soldiers. I can't imagine someone in that situation doing anything to put his fellow soldiers in harms way.
I spent time as a mailhandler at the GMF in Boston. They hire alot of vets and disabled vets(the law requires the post office hire them). Some of them were in rough shape, one that couldn't even function on the workroom floor. He chain smoked and would mumble all the time, he looked constantly shell shocked. He looked so much older than he was. People would ignore him, but I would always say hi to him(although I don't think he understood anything I said). Word was he saw some rough situations in vietnam. We had a couple go off the deep end too, one jumped off the roof in a suicide attempt(he lived, he landed on a trailor that was being loaded, busted up real bad, but survived). Another killed his wife, stole an airplane, and was buzzing the post office. He had an ak47 and was shooting at the post office while he was flying(no lie). I mean, don't get me wrong, most of the vietnam vets were normal. Some would talk about things they saw, some wouldn't. And some of the things they talked about were pretty scary. Every trap you had to watch out for seemed to end in spikes going through you. One mentioned the tunnel rats, I guess the vietnamese had built hundreds of tunnels, and there were a group of guys that would actually go into these tunnels(big balls), but there were traps there too, one being a water trap(I never asked what that was). I would never question them on their thoughts about the vietnam war or if they protested it, they lived it, who am I to tell them how to think about it. I mean, I feel I have no right to.
BTW, when I said being paid to be there and not being there, that was not in regard to vietnam, but to the service in general(in regards to Bush saying he was there when he may not have)
I have had many friends that did the Guard. A couple that did the Army, and one that did the Air Force. I never said anything bad about the Guard or reserves. What I said was that Bush had a nice gig that kept him out of harms way, that's the truth. Is he a bad person for doing it? Of course not, anyone with a connection would have done the same thing. I'm sure alot of politicians did what they could to keep their kids from being sent to vietnam. Is Kerry right for bringing up Bush's service? I don't think so, that's the politician talking(although I would understand some vietnam vets having some resentment towards the people who got out of going). But if your big issue is that Bush missed some time at the reserves, then your campaign is in trouble( I want to hear the real issues that matter to me). I said I think Bush shouldn't question Kerry's service, he should take the high road. I think it would make him the better person, imo. I think there are plenty of issues Bush can use against Kerry, I don't think his military service is one of them.
