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Political, but boating related
http://www.thedailybrew.com/
extract It is 1969. You are a 21 year old kid in the Navy, serving on a Swift boat in Vietnam. You might have joined the National Guard, but some Congressman’s kid jumped ahead of you in line, grabbing the last spot available. Right now you are on patrol in the Mekong Delta, and you have run into an ambush. A mine goes off under your boat, throwing you in the water and injuring your skipper. Weighed down by guns, grenades, and ammunition, you sink to the bottom while five more boats pass overhead. You shed your gear and surface. As the boats disappear down the river, you are taking machine gun and small arms fire from both banks of the river. You can’t swim to either side without getting shot, and even if you did, getting captured means getting killed. You have one, and only one chance, to get out alive. You have to hope that your skipper turns his boat around, heads back into the crossfire over the mine infested water, reaches down with his bloody arm, and drags you back up on the boat. Now for the quiz. Who would you rather have as your skipper, George Bush or John Kerry? Jim Rassmann is alive and well living on the Oregon coast because when it happened to him, his skipper was John Kerry. I don’t know what George Bush would have done if he had been skipper that day, but I do know that on September 11 when he was commander in chief and this nation was under attack, he was nowhere to be found. He was busy flying around the country, eventually landing his plane in Nebraska. It was Rudy Giuliani, not George Bush who stepped in front of the cameras in New York City and let America know that while we were down, we weren’t out, and no made for T.V. fictional account of history changes that fact. |
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