There is a difference between smearing and mentioning painful truths.
There is a reason that some of those veterans turned their backs to Kerry and that many others sat with arms folded, refusing even polite applause. A reason that non veterans can, perhaps, know intellectually but not feel in their guts.
Like all veterans of all wars, regardless of branch of service or duty stations, we all lost friends there. Some of those we lost were closer than brothers. Unlike other wars in our history we didn’t go over together and come home together, our individual wars ended individually.
Unlike other wars we came home branded by a large segment of our society as war criminals, by another segment as losers. Then, as most of us were already home, one of our own officers branded us all, including the dead that we were just beginning to mourn, as war criminals, murderers and rapists.
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I suppose, according to the Highbrow Newspeak culture, the size if your megaphone reduces truth into a smear :
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110005532
- all things being relative.
Simply said :
http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_4872.shtml
Thank you, Kathy, for spreading and amplifying my words. I find it somewhat discomforting to be a spokesman for so many that did so much, and gave up so much more than I. The only thing special about me is that I was once allowed to stand with heros. I guess that ’60s guy was right about everyone getting fifteen minutes.
With a little luck this last battle will go our way and this new generation of ordinary guys, and now gals, that get the incredible gift of standing with heros, paying for that gift with their youth, can come home with their names clean. Then I can go back to being that bald fat guy down the road with the dogs, the one that ought to mow his yard.
You are very welcome, Peter. And thank you. Both for what you did then, and what you have just done.