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I've added the .com that should allow you to go directly to sites that show what the Vietnam veterans that John Kerry called "RAPISTS and BABY KILLERS" really think of Hanoi John Kerry.

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstkerry.com

http://www.wintersoldier.com

http://www.swiftvets.com



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It's kind of funny that in 1971 John Kerry threw the medals he was awarded away--but now in 2004 when he thinks it's politically advantageuos he braggs about having been awarded them.
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My grandfather volunteered for the military right after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He served until the after conclusion of the war, and was one of thousands of men who landed on and took Normandy beach, eventually fighting the Nazi's back to Germany until Hitler committed suicide and Germany formally surrendered to the Allied forces in 1945, followed by Japan's formal surrender after we dropped 'fat man and little boy'.

Growing up I had the good fortune to spend countless hours with my grandfather who taught me how to fish along with a few other of lifes more important lessons, and I can count on two hands with a couple of fingers left over how many times he talked about his military service. When he did speak about being involved in WWII, it certainly wasn't in a bragging manner so as to build up his own persona to any within earshot.

My grandfather passed on in October of 1995, and it wasn't until his memorial service in a small church in Aberdeen Washington that was packed to the rafters with family and friends that I learned about him being wounded during the war and how highly decorated he was for his bravery.

I didn't learn about his valor on the battlefield from my grandfather because he was never one to blow his own horn. He like all humble warriors believed that when your country sends you off to war--the only real heroes are the ones who leave a piece of themselves on the battlefield and comeback less than physically whole, or those who don't come back at all.

I miss my grandpa