Dear Editor:
Benedict Arnold of Connecticut was an American patriot and a
hero at Saratoga early in the American Revolution. However, this
fact was canceled when he became a traitor later in the war.
I served in a recon platoon and three infantry rifle companies
during three tours in Vietnam. In 1971, I was wounded for a seventh
time.
Dear Editor:
Benedict Arnold of Connecticut was an American patriot and a hero at Saratoga early in the American Revolution. However, this fact was canceled when he became a traitor later in the war.
I served in a recon platoon and three infantry rifle companies during three tours in Vietnam. In 1971, I was wounded for a seventh time.
In 1971, John Kerry was working with Jane Fonda aiding the enemy that we were fighting. The protesters that they led were burning American Flags and carrying pictures of Ho Chi Minh and communist flags. The next year, propaganda posters could be found all over Vietnam’s jungles of Fonda wearing an enemy uniform, manning an antiaircraft weapon in Hanoi, and of Kerry leading a demonstration in Washington and at Valley Forge.
In 1971, Kerry published a book that was pro-Hanoi and whose cover mocked the flag raising at Iwo Jima. His book and speeches trashed an entire generation of the United States Armed Forces who fought in Vietnam. What kind of leader politics to go home early with three scratches leaving his men behind, and joins Hanoi Jane?
These activities make John Kerry, Jane Fonda and all others like them, traitors in my book. The blood of thousands of America’s finest is on their hands. The North Vietnamese were encouraged to continue a war that they couldn’t win on the battlefield, but on our home front. A war that was fought for a noble cause to stop communism and to save South Vietnam was defamed, smeared and ultimately lost. Lost by the Kerry-types, left-wing liberal politicians, most of the media, and hordes of college protesters, and draft dodgers, who were later given legitimacy and called real heroes by Jimmy Carter. This is a slap in the face to anyone who ever served and the most disgraceful act of any President in our history.
Now, it breaks my heart to see the same thing starting to happen to our troops in Iraq. The attack against them is being led by many in the media, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, Max Cleland, Wesley Clark, the sewer that most of Hollywood has become with its Michael Moore-types, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and others who have politicized our national security. These extreme liberals are greatly damaging the war against terrorism. They would also have us get permission from a corrupt and predominantly anti-American U.N. before defending our country. To their type, America is always wrong.
One last fact is that real heroes don’t beat their chests proclaiming their service and calling themselves heroes. Yet, the most liberal of our one hundred senators by voting record, Hanoi John Kerry, does this daily. Did you ever hear Bob Dole, who went through far more than most, do such a thing when he was senator or running for president?
Colonel (Ret.) Robert Powell
U.S. Army Infantry,
Submitted 8/4,
Carrollton, Georgia
