Reply #12: Such claptrap

[lapfog_1]

third or forth time this one has been around the block...

Sigh.

First off, Kerry didn't talk about his war RECORD or his actions
in war. He did bring his swift boat mates with him to the nomination.
It was the other side that started talking about where he served,
when he served, and how he served, including specifics of how Kerry
killed an enemy soldier. Not Kerry.

Second, I know some war heroes too. My father, for example. Served
in the Navy for the entire WWII. And no, he didn't OFTEN talk about
what he did in the Navy... but if you asked him, he would talk about
the Anzio landing, about how he and another sailor threw a boarding
net over the side of their "tin can" and both of them clambered down
to the water line to fish men from another ship that had been
sunk next to theirs... this while THEIR ship was trying to get away
from the shore batteries and attacking planes. He also talked some
about convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic, and how dangerous
it was just to cross from one part of the ship to another with ice
inches thick everywhere, and slipping meant you were likely
overboard with no chance of survival. So yeah, he did talk about
the war... and so did his Navy buddies.

Third, note that he "knows" someone that won the Congressional
Medal of Honor, and then relates a story of how "honored" Colin
Powell was to meet him... OK, give us a name... there are only about
137 living MOH winners, this should NOT be hard to name that person.
Then it was Powell, not Bush or someone else in the shrubya
administration... why? Because Powell is the ONLY ONE of Shrubya's
"inner circle" to have served in combat. So this story is about
one "warrior" paying complements to another one. And this part
smells of fiction.

This little story has all the earmarks of "urban legend". And
the same validity.