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SAIL LOCO wrote:
So, what you're saying is that you either have very limited direct
experience with VN vets or that you think someone who is wounded three
times, who commands troops in action, who is awarded a bronze and a
silver, and who has the option of leaving, should stay or be declared
unpatriotic.

I am a Viet Nam vet. In reply to your other question I don't know of any
soldier who was in Viet Nam who was awarded medals but was not injured to the
point where he couldn't fight left before his tour was up. Kerry's so called
wounds were nothing. Maybe he knew about the 3 medals you get to go home rule
and that's why he became "wounded" so many times in a short period of time.

Being a vet does not necessarily qualify you to make the
generalization.

Also, it seems like you're saying that since Kerry availed himself of
what he could, that that somehow disqualifies him from being a war
hero and patriotic. Why would anyone want to stay in a place like that
any longer than possible?? His wounds were supposedly nothing, but
somehow you've become the arbiter of what does and what doesn't
qualify, over and above what the military seems to think on the
subject. According to you, he didn't serve admirably, yet according to
Bush he did.

If you want to talk about being unpatriotic, perhaps you should talk
about Bush deciding not to follow a direct order to have a physical,
shirking his duties, and being penalized for it by having his service
agreement extended by 6 months as punishment. Perhaps wasting millions
of dollars of taxpayer money by not doing as he was ordered is ok with
you, but it's not ok with me. I think that's pretty unpatriotic.



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