VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
The University of Kansas Student Auxiliary
V.V.A.R.: Leading the student revolt on campus against speech codes, political correctness, multiculturalism, gender feminism, dormitory re-education, lying about Vietnam, and other instruments of academic oppression.
Leonard Magruder - Founder/President
Former professor of psychology - Suffolk College, N.Y.
Member: National Association of Scholars
CONTACT: Magruder44@aol.com - Phone: 785-312-9303
GUEST ARTICLE:
LETTER TO JOHN KERRY FROM A VIETNAM VETERAN’S WIFE
From: Annette [mailto:annette@i-served.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:23 AM
To: 'info@johnkerry.com'
Cc: Len Magruder; 'WinterSoldier.com'; Don Hall (F/51st);
'oreilly@foxnews.com'; 'kwilbur@fisherradio.com'; 'Nightly@NBC.com';
'Peter.Jennings@abc.com'; 'fle@cbsnews.com'; 'evening@cbsnews.com';
'drudge@drudgereport.com'; 'Chairman@gop.com'
Subject: Letter to John Kerry from a Vietnam veteran's wife
Dear Mr. Kerry,
I am the wife of a Vietnam veteran who fought honorably in Vietnam in 1967-68, first in the 173rd Airborne Brigade, then as a combat team leader in Company F, 51st Long Range Patrol (Airborne) Infantry. My husband did not murder any innocents or commit any of the atrocities that you accused him of in your broad-brush defamation and vilification of all Vietnam veterans in the communist-inspired propaganda testimony you gave before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.
I am horrified at the thought of your being this country's next president, which would be the ultimate slap in the face to the millions of honorable Vietnam veterans and their families. Therefore, I am doing everything in my power to voice my opinion about your misguided and totally self-serving activities as an anti-war protestor, and political operative. You couldn't have done more damage to my husband, his fellow Vietnam vets, and the country as a whole, let alone the millions of SE Asians who died as a result of the success of your and your colleagues' "anti-war" activities than if you had been working directly for the KGB itself!
You were wrong then, and you're wrong now. Your actions over the past thirty plus years, and to this day, tell us that your belief system and ideology haven't changed. You used and abused Vietnam veterans as a tool in the early 1970's to get political power, and you're still doing it. Only, the prize is much, much higher this time.
Can you deny the truth of the following quote, Mr. Kerry?
"Former Romanian general and spy chief Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to defect from the Soviet bloc, described Kerry's testimony as sounding "exactly like the disinformation line that the Soviets were sowing worldwide throughout the Vietnam era. KGB priority number one at that time was to damage American power, judgment, and credibility. One of its favorite tools was the fabrication of such evidence as photographs and 'news reports' about invented American war atrocities." As the leader of this effort, General Pacepa "produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe." KGB chairman Yuri Andropov, who managed the anti-Vietnam War operation, described the Vietnam disinformation campaign to Pacepa as "our most significant success."
-- quoted from: http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040309080126760
I request that you release your medical records and award citations pertaining to the wounds you suffered in Vietnam that earned you three Purple Hearts so that I, and the rest of the American people, may read the details ourselves. We would also like to see copies of your Officer's Fitness Reports and the rest of your personal military records that document your specific service in the Navy. Those records exist and will give evidence as to your fitness for any type of high-level leadership role, especially that of Commander in Chief. If you refuse to release these records to the public, it says to me that you have something to hide, plain and simple. Any valorous combat soldier would have no problem releasing such records, especially one who desired to be the next President of the United States of America. I implore you, release those records, Mr. Kerry. I very much would like to read them, and so would every other voter in this country, including your supporters. Don't just talk about your service in Vietnam, Mr. Kerry, show us the written records!
Sincerely,
a concerned voter, and the wife of a Vietnam veteran
Annette R. Hall
co-author of I SERVED
Executive Producer of SILENT VICTORY
P.S. I have blind-copied many people on this email. Also, unlike the RNC's website, there is no email address available on their website to contact the chairman of the DNC, so I had to send this message to Terry McAuliffe using the site's web contact form. Ditto for Senator Ted Kennedy. They just don't like us common folk being able to email them directly.
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