{"id":65519,"date":"2016-04-29T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65519"},"modified":"2016-04-29T15:25:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T19:25:39","slug":"john-kerry-reminds-us-of-his-vietnam-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65519","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry reminds us of his Vietnam years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In case you forgot, John Kerry reminds you that he was in Vietnam, briefly, at The Vietnam War Summit held at the LBJ Presidential Library the other day. He was hawking a documentary by Ken Burns which he hopes will redeem his image – that of an ignorant little POS protester.<\/p>\n

Kerry rarely discusses in public his time as an anti-war protester. His pointed remarks suggested that the poised, silver-haired diplomat who negotiates ceasefires and treaties, is just an evolution from the angry, shaggy-maned protester who posed the rhetorical question of how to ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1971, when I testified against the war in Vietnam,\u201d Kerry said, \u201cI spoke of the determination of veterans to undertake one last mission so that in 30 years, when our brothers went down the street without a leg or an arm and people asked why, we\u2019d be able to say \u201cVietnam\u201d and not mean a bitter memory \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Kerry stopped, seeming to choke back tears and taking a chug from a water bottle before he composed himself and completed the thought.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026. a bitter memory,\u201d he continued, \u201cbut mean instead the place where America turned and where we helped it in the turning.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If, by “rarely”, the Washington Post<\/a> means “at every opportunity” then they’d be correct. Remember this?<\/p>\n

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He parlayed his three months in Vietnam into a political career, his three minor injuries for which he received three Purple Hearts into his ticket home to besmirch the reputation of every veteran who served honorably in that war with charges of atrocities.<\/p>\n

Early in his speech, Kerry said that a 10-part documentary in the works by filmmaker Ken Burns will vindicate critics of the war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There aren’t documentaries enough to vindicate people like John Kerry and Jane Fonda, but that probably won’t stop people like Ken Burns from trying;<\/p>\n

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Kerry also said the blame some Americans placed on U.S. servicemen and women was \u201ctragically misplaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that well as one of the four founders of the Vietnam Veterans against the War,\u201d he said, citing inadequate benefits for veterans, as well as homelessness and trauma.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That coming from the guy who compared US troops to the barbarian Genghis Kahn at his appearance in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Kerry said he was one of the lucky ones, who returned from Vietnam whole. \u201cI am now in a position of responsibility, to live my beliefs, to live my lessons,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, lucky, that’s what he was…not a conniving little valor thief who suffered wounds from an exploding bag of rice and manipulated the system to scurry away from his responsibilities and denigrate the folks who stayed and did their jobs.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n

Here is John Fagmo Kerry’s testimony if you missed it 45 years ago.<\/p>\n