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Saturday - August 21, 2004
One Of Our Readers Sounds Off
Occasionally one of our readers leaves a comment that deserves a full post by itself. Bob has done that in response to the "Kerry Meltdown" post. I'll let him tell you in his own words ....What if? What if Kerry does win the election and then he abandons his "Band of Brothers" like he did 35 years ago in Vietnam. I wonder if the truth would come out from these guys about the real Lt Jg Kerry.
Leadership...being a leader. Being a commander of a Swift Boat, like Lt. Jg Kerry was, means he was the leader of his men. He was responsible for the training, morale, fitness, well being, and most of all the lives of those men under his command. He was the Officer in Charge and had the responsibility. His job and duty was to see these guys made it through the war and accomplished the missions assigned to them. On that Swift Boat he was the Old Man, the boss, the CO. How did Lt Jg Kerry accept his responsibilities? Lets see, the first chance he got he left his men high and dry. Your fighting a war and you have put your life in this guys hands and suddenly, without warning, he is gone. Not because of higher headquarters orders but because he found a way out in the system and took it. He didn't have to take it but he did. How many NCO's and Officers could have taken early returns on deployments but refused because they wouldn't leave their men behind. I once had to order a young NCO back to the states while on a deployment because his wife was due to have their baby very soon and there was the chance of complications. He didn't want to leave because his aircraft and people were still there and he felt his place was with them. BTW, baby and wife came through it ok.
Now I want you to put yourself in the places of these enlisted men on Kerry's Swift Boat. Here you are stuck in this forsaken country for at least one year and an officer, a rich kid from an influential family, is your Skipper and suddenly after 4 months he is gone, on his way back to the states. What would you have said or done 35 years ago when this happened? Being an enlisted man myself, I know what these men would have said and it wasn't "good luck". Those guys, the ones on stage with him now, would have probably fragged him in a heart beat...fragging is when the troops kill their own officers because they are untrustworthy. And then, to top it off, this officer, your former leader is telling the world that YOU murdered innocent people, YOU were war criminal, YOU are a lowlife. You tell me how you would have felt if you were one of those men? Your C.O. just betrayed you to the world and fabricated falsehoods to further his goals. And, now tell me why those men are now standing with him on stage, supporting him, and singing his praises? We all know the answer, they are either being bought off or are most likely promised some type of reward or compensation. If Kerry wins they feel they will have direct access to the White House. That is a very powerful thing to have, especially to someone whose life has basically been a nobody. I hope these guys realize that if Kerry looses that the Democrats will not remember them for their faithful service to John Kerry during his presidential bid. No sir, they will remember them as the baby killers of Vietnam because once their "war hero" is out of the picture, they will go back to hating anything connected with the military and Vietnam. It's funny though how his fellow officers, the ones who stayed and led their men through the war, are not singing his praises but condemning his actions. The leaders, the ones who cared for their men and did their time in-country, his peers and his superiors, all say he is a liar and cannot be trusted to lead as he is not a leader.
Damn, Bob! I couldn't have said it better.
Posted by The Skipper
on 08/21/2004 at 08:41 AM
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