Viet Nam Put to Rest (Burying the Ignoble Warrior)

I heard a fella call a talk radio show yesterday that said he was a Viet Nam veteran and that the war was finally over for him with the elections this year. I can't say how much that spoke to me. I was in the US Marine Corps from 1966-70 and saw a year in Viet Nam from 1968-69. I felt the emotions of the times and was terribly distraught for years about the nasty treatment by our countrymen. The whole election experience this year has been like group therapy. Kerry got whacked by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (way to go guys!) and moral issues ruled the day. I'm waiting as I write for results of the Washington state gubernatorial race that may go for a republican. I'm encouraged. And it may be the military absentee ballots that sway it. That's great news.

Kerry spoke with the anti-American crowds with Hollyweird celebs for punctuation (for that is all they really are, functioning) and did much damage to me and my fellow military volunteers...patriots...of that era. I joined the Corps (when it was the least popular) for ideological and moral reasons...in as much as I understood them at the time. " Duty, Honor, Country" were not bad words then for many who went to war...only for the likes of John Kerry. As a Marine, I thought '"How could an officer leave his men after only four months "in country" and with such trivial "wounds?"' Marines don't leave their comrades (alive, wounded OR dead) on the battlefield. This guy was nothing of the quality it took to be a noble warrior. I'm inclined to remember him as the "Ignoble Warrior". He stood for all that I despise in a man...cowardice, opportunism, moral relativism, nacissism and Frenchism...the Frenchism like that of holding court for the likes of Yassur Arafat, that bloody, pedarastic terrorist, in a Paris hospital when all the civilized world should be happy he is leaving us (LEFT us...as I've just read). It reminds me of the meetings Kerry had as an inactive duty Navy officer (treasonous by a less tolerant society) with our enemy representatives in Paris during the Viet Nam war after he returned to besmirch the honor of all his "brothers" that he left on the field of battle. What a pathetic opportunist.

At any rate, his demise in the election brought a cheer to my heart and I'm sure that was true for many others of my ilk. It has wiped the spittle from the faces of us returning vets at last. Thanks, America.