John Kerry returns to site where he killed man during Vietnam war

[rug]

Agence France-Presse in Ca Mau
Sunday 15 January 2017 07.03 EST

Vo Ban Tam, a Viet Cong veteran, remembers the first time he crossed paths with John Kerry on the banks on the Bay Hap river, a day that ended in bloodshed.

Almost half century later, the Mekong delta shrimp farmer, now 70, has locked eyes with the US secretary of state as they warmly grasped hands in mutual respect.

Kerry returned to the Bay Hap river at the end of a visit to Vietnam, less than a week before he leaves office, looking for the spot where he won a Silver Star medal for bravery as a young navy lieutenant.

On 28 February 1969 as the skipper of Swift boat PCF-94, Kerry on patrol when Vo’s unit launched an ambush.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/15/john-kerry-returns-to-site-where-he-killed-man-during-vietnam-war

[madokie]

1. I'd like to go back to Vietnam too

this time as a sight seer rather than as a soldier. It took me all of a few days to realized that what we/our country was doing there was as wrong as wrong can be.

Worse than a simple mistake, more like a criminal action. Thats how I feel even to this day

[rug]

2. It's a scar that never stops throbbing.

[Botany]

4. It was the summer between 5th and 6th grade when I saw a marine car at my ...

.... friend's house. Now Jim had been wounded 2 times before but when I saw
a priest with the marine officer I knew then that Jim had been killed. Poor guy didn't
even make it to 19. And to think Nixon kept that war goung another 5 years and
in the end signed the exact same deal that was on the table in 1968.

BTW in 2004 I was honored enough to get and meet 2 of the people who served with
Kerry on the swift boat. John Kerry was and is the real deal and a hero.

The idea that we are now going to get an insane con man who is owned by Putin/Russia
as President/CiC, after the dirtiest election ever is something I still can't process.

[madokie]

5. I'm having a tough time with this election too

There should be a vetting process for the Presidency other than simply who wins the EC
Sanity, knowledge of the world governments and how they work, a history of being a good person, not a dolt like tRump and on and on

[Botany]

7. Trump is a grifter and a con man and he is going to be POTUS

The man's business empire crashed around him in the 1990s and if it wasn't
for the Russians and their money along with that phony TV show "The Apprentice"
he would be nothing.

I really wonder just how long the Russians and Putin have been cultivating him
in order to do their bidding?

[madokie]

8. We know that these kind

Work toward the big picture so I'd bet they've been working on him for a while.

We're fucked! To put it mildly

[Botany]

9. But what about Hillary's emails?

Trump and his campaign were working with the Russians all along even
going as far as sending people back and forth to Russia and Europe to meet.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141664131

[lpbk2713]

6. I'd like to visit The Wall.

The traveling Wall has been in my area a few times but I
just can't bring myself to go see it. I just can't do it.

[Trust Buster]

3. Bush's people desecrated this man's sacrifice. They are so very hateful. No working with them.

[MBS]

11. " " " " n/t

[lillypaddle]

10. John Kerry

is a good, brave, and decent man. It still hurts me the way THEY dragged his name and reputation through the mud.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Now we know that swift-boating was just the beginning, wasn't it?