Swiftboat Veterans for Henry Orient?

It's proven once again that no good deed goes unpunished. However, people with real character AND resilience, like you, are a joy to behold. I happen to have first hand knowledge that what you say is true, so thanks for being such a thoroughly good person. Sad to say, Merrie is undoubtedly lost in the ugly netherworld of right-wing ideology, but you are an inspiration who will someday get your reward - if not in this life, surely in the next. God (whatever you perceive him, her, or it to be) bless you!

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Fair enough, jaybird. Hopefully, you are supportive of all investigative reporters who try to expose fraud, regardless of political persuasion. It's a bittersweet sign of the times that exposing liars seems to be a growth industry. Anyway, thank you for your service to our country, and I agree with your comments about TWoHO, and George Roy Hill, who seemingly never made a bad movie.

......I know alot of Vietnam veterans, one of which is my own brother and not one of those I'm close too regard the left as liars. It was the political machine which chose Kerry to run. I devoted my energies to Kucinich, many I know liked Clark, some stayed with Dean. I ended I'm sorry to say up voting for Kerry to try to keep Bush from another four years and accomplishing what he may do ie load the supreme court with conservative reactionary wolves. Kerry is a sham and a weak fool but he might have been less threatening to all the social progress we've made with regard to workers and individual rights, women's rights, and the environment. I'll go farther and say Kerry was set up to lose, signed on to lose, for the publicity maybe, not sure maybe they paid him off, but he ran, I'm certain, a dummy campaign. This doesn't mean the left is corrupt through and through. Look up Between the Lines a show on WPKN here in CT, and I like the positions of the reporters who write for the Nation. There was a great piece in the New York Times exhorting congress to have some spine and reject Alito, God, I hope they do. There are hords of sincere leftward thinking people, millions in fact, devoted to defending those and that which needs defending in very effective ways.

I know the war was a terrble blow to you. You must have seen and done things that would curl our hair and then some. My brother's experience changed his personality a great deal, as did the experiences of his friends have similar effects them. My father was quite violent after WWII and so were his friends. That the corporate zions need to send innocent young people into combat to throw their weight in explosive toys around is just unimaginably sad. My dad used to say we needed the worst bad boy in office to stand up to the other bad boys around the world. I'm not inclined that way, I like smart and decent and aware, the Jackie Chans of politics as opposed to the Al Capones. Hoping for the best, trying for detachment, only a little successful, obviously. Good luck to you, but not going to let you disparage all who are trying to protect us because you went into combat to protect Lady Bird Johnson's zinc mines and heroin poppies.