Read book before voting for Kerry
I am probably not the right person to respond to the Swift Boat letter to the editor Aug. 25, when we have among us truly great Vietnam heroes. Some of them have Bronze Star, Silver Star and Purple Heart medals. These Warren County Vietnam vets did not submit their own application for the medals or write their own after-action report as Mr. Unfit to Command, John Kerry, did.
Therefore, I respond to defend the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, the 400,000 GI’s who served in Vietnam and above all the 56,000 plus Americans who gave their life to stop the advance of communism in Vietnam. John Kerry who called them monsters, baby killers and war criminals, betrayed these heroes. He said this to the leftist Fulbright Senate Hearing Committee while his band of brothers was still fighting the war and being held in POW camps.
Paul Galanti, a Navy pilot who was shot down over Vietnam in June 1966 and then spent seven years in communist captivity as a POW, remembers Kerry’s antiwar rhetoric all too well. Galanti told the Los Angeles Times in February 2004 that during torture sessions his North Vietnamese captors would play the antiwar remarks made by Lieutenant Junior Grade, John Kerry. Paul Galanti’s criticism of John Kerry is “He was a traitor to the men he served with.”
John Kerry and Jane Fonda, financed and directed by the communists, worked very hard to turn America against this noble effort to stop the communists in South Vietnam. His protest against America and the war earned him the honor of having his photograph displayed in the War Crimes Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, titled “The World Supports Vietnam in its Resistance.” In the photograph, the general secretary of the Communist Party, Comrade Do Muoi, is greeting John Kerry.
Three presidents, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, thought it important to save South Vietnam from communism. It was clear in John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” Kerry suggested that we might be just another colonial force in that part of the world, ourselves morally wrong.
The positive statements about Kerry made by Admiral Ray Huffman, George Elliott, Larry Thurlow ad Lieutenant Grant Hibbard were made before they found out that Kerry requested the medals for himself and others and submitted his own after action report.
Over 200 Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth have signed a letter to Kerry asking him for an explanation of his grossly distorting the conduct of the American Servicemen.
Before you vote in November, and if you read only one book this year, let it be “Unfit for Command.” Draw your own conclusions as to: honesty of swift boaters for the truth; first foreign born first lady; 16 weeks to become the most decorated junior grade lieutenant, ever; Kerry’s testimony of lies; Kerry’s meeting with the enemy; Kerry’s anti-war secrets; Kerry’s communist honors.
Sincerely,
Sam Allen
Hickory Blvd.
McMinnville