Kerry in Viet Nam in April 1968?

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Kerry in Viet Nam in April 1968?

It's very apparent now that John Kerry will embellish his Viet Nam service whenever it suits him. This was discovered by a reader who was kind of enough to sent me a link to a speech in January of 2003. The embellished one is speaking to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in Richmond, VA.

"I remember well April, 1968 - I was serving in Vietnam—a place of violence -- when the news reports brought home to me and my crewmates the violence back home - and the tragic news that one of the bullets flying that terrible spring took the life of that unabashedly maladjusted citizen."

Now this is probably a nitpick, but a clear pattern has emerged. For the record, Kerry apparently was on USS Gridley in April of 1968. Unless of course it suits his agenda for a speech. Then he was in Viet Nam. John Kerry should have just stuck with the facts of his service in Viet Nam and the Navy factually instead of fudging dates, locations and time-lines.

He's crossed over, he's now officially pathological.

Washington Dispatch, 20 Augest 2004

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/page2/

I wounder if Kerry knows where/who is is today?
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ho-hum, the old exaggeration trick Gore was accused of in 2000. What else is new?
Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top
Gore was accused of in 2000.


Ooooh, Myyyyy, Goddddd. You mean Gore was in Veitnam during April of 1968 too.

 The diffrence is that Kerry has repeatedly done it, even in Cangressional testamony under oath. I'm just afraid what he may say on the international stage. At least so far he has been limited to within the US.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

isnt service aboard a warship on-station in coastal waters to support a landbased campaign the equivalent of actually having one's boots on the ground?   pilots whose missions originate on offshore carriers and consist solely of combat overflights dont qualify either? 

you wanna tell them that please?

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

I'm just afraid what he may say on the international stage.


if that was a primary concern of voters, the current president would still be working out the mariner's starting lineup

Reply #5 from PolMach Forums Top
you wanna tell them that please?


The USS Girdley during April was sailing from Australia en route to the West Coast and arrived Long Beach . OK, I'll give you a credit for that one Kingbee.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

The USS Girdley during April was sailing from Australia en route to the West Coast and arrived Long Beach


below is an excerpt from an article written by captain jf kelly, jr who was xo of the gridley during 1967-68


We deployed from San Diego to the Vietnam theatre in early 1968 after only a six-month turnaround and spent most of a four month deployment on rescue station in the Gulf of Tonkin, standing by to pick up downed aviators. It was a fairly grueling tour of duty. Our helicopter was shot up trying to rescue a downed pilot and the door gunner was killed. The crew performed well and John Kerry’s performance in all aspects of his duty was outstanding. Drafting his fitness reports was an exercise in the use of superlatives. In fact, of the thirty or so officers, I counted him in the top half dozen, no mean feat for an ensign.


the gridley arrived at lbns on june 8, 1968 according to danfs. previous trips from lbns to adelaide and vice versa took just under a month  he was there in april 1968.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
"if that was a primary concern of voters, the current president would still be working out the mariner's starting lineup"


The problem with all the lies, exageratted heroics, and anti-veteran testimony ISN'T what it all means now. As I wrote in a recent blog how the Republican party and Swift Vets treats the Kerry mythology is nothing compared to what North Korea will do with it.

Can you imagine, after Iraq, Afghanistan, and the host of other diplomatic conflicts we have going, electing a President that admitted to commiting "atrocities"? Do you think it will matter to hateful, anti-US propagandists that Kerry went back and protested, etc.? Heck no, he has given them multitudes of sound bytes to play with, and a record of both admitting the atrocities in Vietnam, and then lauding his own participation and heroism there.

Anti-US elements will have him turned into Col. Kurtz before he's even sworn in. Sure, the world hates Bush, but if you think they will suspend their anti-US sentiments just because we gave them the lesser of two evils, you're nuts.