Is Chris Thomas a Real Pilot?

ChuckSlusarczyk wrote in message ...

I feel Kerry had a right to protest the war but he didn't have to trash his
former comrades while doing it.

If your white, and you see a white guy beating up a black guy, do you
turn you head just becaue the guy doing the dirty deed is the same
color as you?

Substitute nationality for skin color in the previous example. Does
it change what you do?

Bad things happen in war. And just because your country sees itself
as the "good guys", doesn't mean you all are. Take any random sample
of 100 people and your bound to have a few bad apples, otherwise, our
prisons would be empty. And we sent tens of thousands to Vietnam. So
the idea that none of those tens of thousands did anything wrong is
ludicrous.

I think being an American means standing up for what's right,
regardless of who that puts in the wrong. Kerry did what he thought
was right, and I personally think that what he did took alot more
courage then simply ignoring the atrocities.

Rich

Amen, brother.

It takes balls to stand up for what is right. So many followers, not enough
leaders.

Stan K.

"Rich" wrote in message
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ChuckSlusarczyk wrote in message
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I feel Kerry had a right to protest the war but he didn't have to trash
his
former comrades while doing it.

If your white, and you see a white guy beating up a black guy, do you
turn you head just becaue the guy doing the dirty deed is the same
color as you?

Substitute nationality for skin color in the previous example. Does
it change what you do?

Bad things happen in war. And just because your country sees itself
as the "good guys", doesn't mean you all are. Take any random sample
of 100 people and your bound to have a few bad apples, otherwise, our
prisons would be empty. And we sent tens of thousands to Vietnam. So
the idea that none of those tens of thousands did anything wrong is
ludicrous.

I think being an American means standing up for what's right,
regardless of who that puts in the wrong. Kerry did what he thought
was right, and I personally think that what he did took alot more
courage then simply ignoring the atrocities.

Rich

I think being an American means standing up for what's right,
regardless of who that puts in the wrong. Kerry did what he thought
was right, and I personally think that what he did took alot more
courage then simply ignoring the atrocities.

Rich


Did he? Did he stand up for what was right when he was in Viet Nam or did he
participate in the events only to come home and then claim remorse for having
done so? From his testimony, that is the apparant conclusion that could be
drawn.


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In article , Rich says...

I think being an American means standing up for what's right,
regardless of who that puts in the wrong. Kerry did what he thought
was right, and I personally think that what he did took alot more
courage then simply ignoring the atrocities.

It would have been right if he had the courage to say it then and there when it
happened. He should have turned himself in for what he said "he" did,that's
courage. But to wait until it would politically advance his career was just an
opportunist taking advantage. The fact he met with the VC after he was out puts
him in the same league as Jane Fonda. In my book he's a traitor on par with
Benedict Arnold who also started off as an American war hero. I don't have any
use for back stabbers. Just my opinion.

See ya

Chuck S