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	America the Beautiful




		Baker Co, USMC Iraq 2004


	What's different between the American G.I. and Bin Laden's cowards? In one picture, here it is:

Ann of A Thousand Nights
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Richard, (my husband), never really talked a lot about his time in Vietnam other than he had been shot by a sniper. However, he had a rather grainy, 8 x 10 black & white photo he had taken at a USO show of Ann Margaret with Bob Hope in the background that was one of his treasures.

A few years ago, Ann Margaret was doing a book signing at a local bookstore. Richard wanted to see if he could get her to sign the treasured photo so he arrived at the bookstore at 12 o'clock for the 7:30 signing. When I got there after work, the line went all the way around the bookstore, circled the parking lot, and disappeared behind a parking garage.

Before her appearance, bookstore employees announced that she would sign only her book and no memorabilia would be permitted. Richard was disappointed, but wanted to show her the photo and let her know how much those shows meant to lonely GI's so far from home.

Ann Margaret came out looking as beautiful as ever and, as 2nd in line, it was soon Richard's turn. He presented the book for her signature and then took out the photo. When he did, there were many shouts from the employees that she would not sign it. Richard said, "I understand. I just wanted her to see it".

She took one look at the photo, tears welled up in her eyes and she said, "This is one of my gentlemen from Vietnam and I most certainly will sign his photo. I know what these men did for their country and I always have time for "my gentlemen". With that, she pulled Richard across the table and planted a big kiss on him.

She then made quite a todo about the bravery of the young men she met over the years, how much she admired them, and how much she appreciated them. There weren't too many dry eyes among those close enough to hear. She then posed for pictures and acted as if he was the only one there.

Later at dinner, Richard was very quiet. When I asked if he'd like to talk about it, my big strong husband broke down in tears. "That's the first time anyone ever thanked me for my time in the Army", he said.

Richard, like many others, came home to people who spit on him and shouted ugly things at him. That night was a turning point for him. He walked a little straighter and, for the first time in years, was proud to have been a vet.

I'll never forget Ann Margaret for her graciousness and how much that small act of kindness meant to my husband. I now make it a point to say Thank You to every person I come across who served in our Armed Forces.

Freedom does not come cheap and I am grateful for all those who have served their country.

If you'd like to pass on this story, feel free to do so. Perhaps it will help others to become aware of how important it is to acknowledge the contribution our service people make.

-Author unknown

And why was Richard spit on? (And so was I). Why did I stop wearing my uniform off duty and on leave, why did I change to civvies in the O'Hare concourse men's room after catching my military standby flights home, why did I and other veterans who sacrificed so much to protect your freedom, disguise themselves as civilians as though ashamed of being soldiers? The same boys, many of whom had been FORCED to fight by the draft, (my "draft lottery" number was 41) by the very society that was now spitting on them for not running away to Canada as cowards, or doing other manipulations of the system, e.g. enrolling in a seminary just to get Consciencous Objector status? The traitors Jane Fonda, John Kerry, and Tom Hayden own much of the reason for heavily influencing the mindset of that society into it's shameful behavior. Frankly, these people, and those who bought their hypocrisy - that is, much of American society of the decade beginning about 1967 - should be ashamed of their behavior, and many are. Now. Nowadays it's stylish to be a Vietnam vet - now that the moral compass of the country has swung 180°. What incredible hypocrisy for John Kerry to claim to be a Vietnam war HERO now that it amounts to political capital to do so. The man is a snake, the lowest form of human I have ever seen in public life. How he - and Jane Fonda - escaped indictment and prosecution for treason has me shaking my head in disgust. Take a few minutes and enter the words "John Kerry traitor" in google - and watch and read the avalanche of testimony and facts of his roguish behavior. Regardless of your politics - no veteran should back Kerry's play after what he has done.

Oct 29, 2004. Joseph Farrah, World Net Daily Commentator:

"Recently, the most decorated living American soldier, Col. George "Bud" Day, compared Kerry to Benedict Arnold. There is only one difference between Kerry and Benedict Arnold. The latter was a genuine war hero – by all accounts a brave fighting man who became a turncoat. Kerry was, at best, an undistinguished soldier, a malcontent, who groped for medals by writing his own after-action reports, hyped his own self-inflicted wounds, left action after four months in the field and then openly joined the enemy.

"He became, arguably, the most important human asset in the public relations arsenal of the Vietnamese Communists.

"Kerry knew and the Vietnamese knew that American military forces could never be defeated on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. So they set out to defeat them in the world of politics and public opinion. They set out to destroy America's will to fight. They set out to undermine America's morale and self-confidence.

"And it worked. It worked brilliantly – so brilliantly that Kerry was rewarded for his treacherous behavior with a successful political career.

"But now the truth is out there for all to see. The smoking-gun documents produced by Kerry's own friends and allies in Hanoi have betrayed him. All that remains left for Americans is to recognize what those documents mean.

"They mean the man so close to becoming commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States is the man who betrayed those forces in 1971 – the man who betrayed his comrades in arms, the man who betrayed his country.

"It's time to call a spade a spade. Kerry is a traitor. What he did was treason. Period. End of story.

"If what he did in 1971 – knowingly cooperating with the enemy, traveling to Paris to meet with its agents at least twice, taking instructions from them on what to do to undermine the U.S. cause in Vietnam – was not treason, then we might as well throw the word out of the English language. If we can't use it in this case, we simply can't use the word any more.

"America's mistake was not locking this guy up in the stockades in 1971 and throwing away the key. Now, we as a nation, are on the verge of paying the price.

"May God open America's eyes next Tuesday."

Communist Vietnamese honor John Kerry, the war protestor, as a hero in their victory over the United States in the Vietnam War.

Photograph of John Kerry meeting with Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Vietnam. Photo displayed in the War Remnants Museum (formerly the "War Crimes Museum") in Saigon. English-language placard below photograph reads: "Mr. Do Muoi, Secretary General of the Vietnam Communist Party met with Congressmen and Veterans Delegation in Vietnam (July 15-18, 1993)."

I still say, indict and try this snake for treason. I signed the petition a year ago. Click on the pic to read Doc Farmer's 11/10/04 article in ChronWatch about it. If you are a Kerry constituent - it is incumbent upon you, by those of us who aren't - to do what part you can to remove him from office - vote. Campaign. Please.




		Click images to read of Jane Fonda's treason.

Please do not buy or rent any Jane Fonda movies or other products. Regardless of your politics, if you support John Kerry, you are at best disrespecting veterans, especially Vietnam vets, and are supporting an American traitor.
John Kennedy is turning over in his grave. I can hear him now:

"...ask what you can do to your country."