John Kerry Is Selling Out Israel Just Like He Did Vietnam Vets

­­­‪­‪­­‪­­­­‪­­­‪‪­­­­‪­‪‪‪‪­­­­‪­­­­­‪­­‪­­­‪­­­­­On January 10, 2017, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was the perfect place for John Kerry to give one of his last speeches to the American public. He had spent many decades in public service and his Navy career was where it had all started. That day, The former naval officer spoke to a couple hundred of Annapolis young midshipmen and school and naval officials and, the background of this world famous and extremely honorable and proud military academy, John Kerry said  "There is no question that this is one of the great assets of our country," Kerry stated that the lessons he learned while in the Navy were "deeply personal."  He reflected how his Navy career and his experiences of being a leader of a ship were key tools in shaping his leadership skills that were his foundation for his decades of public service and the direction he would use in his foreign policy as Secretary of State.
          
 John Kerry saying in his speech that his lessons learned in the Navy were "deeply personal" was all that I wanted, or could hear from his speech.  His experiences in the Navy were deeply personal in various degrees for almost every veteran who would serve during the Era of the Vietnam War.  His last days in the U.S. Navy impacted millions of Americans.  To me, his last days, and last actions, in the Navy would actually be surreal, traumatic and as strange as it may sound, life lasting for me too. Yes, life lasting.
 
 The list of military awards and medals that John Kerry received, while serving in our military as a Naval officer, is extremely impressive.  I am not writing this to question whether John earned them or not.  I was not there serving with him, witnessing his combat actions, or hearing his combat commands.   Only John and his fellow swift-boat sailors can debate their experiences.  I know one thing though, all of these Vietnam brown-water sailors, did not, and still don't, get enough praise for their bravery and sacrifices.  I witnessed their small boats going down rivers in the Hoi An area of Vietnam.  Those young sailors did not even have room to turn their boats around in many of the tight rivers.   Communist Viet Cong terrorist small arms fire could easily reach them from the jungle and tree lines along the rivers.
          
 Like I already wrote, I’m not here to debate John Kerry’s military record in Vietnam.  I’m also not here to compare my war record against John's.   It's silly to compare war stories.  Everything is relative to the violence and sacrifices our military men and women are used to.  However I am here to bring out John Kerry’s actions, while he was still in the U.S. Navy, when he returned from Vietnam.  While still in the U.S. Navy, he came back from the rivers of Vietnam and his brothers-in-arms, an anti-war protestor.  He was vehemently opposed to the war like many other returning vets.  All war is hell, especially for our military and veterans who are forced to witness all its evils.  But John Kerry went above and beyond condemning the war: instead, he openly and clearly became anti-American military and an anti-Vietnam veteran.  His hate, lies and fake news were able to kill the reputation of an entire generation of America’s honorable and proud veterans.  John Kerry used the fertilized-image of Vietnam veterans that he himself created to start his political career in the Democrat Party.
          
 In early 1971, while still in the Navy, John Kerry repeatedly told the world, the American press and the American people that Vietnam veterans were baby-killers and village-burners. In the hopes of launching his own political career, he became the "king of fake news".  Telling lie after lie in front of every news in America, he was able to divert attention from what was really happening in Vietnam.   At one point, John Kerry was appearing on the news so often, Vietnam vets joked that he was carrying around his own microphone and camera.  It was just hyperbole, of course, but the American news media made sure he had  plenty of face-time.  He was their, and the American left's, anti-war poster boy.  He had a huge audience, especially in the U.S. Congress.

 In April 22, 1971 John Kerry, as director of the Vietnam Veterans against the War, testified before special session the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for two hours about alleged widespread atrocities by U.S. troops, and the official policies in Vietnam which were illegal, according to international law. He asked the Congressional panel "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

 "They told the stories at times they had personally  raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off  limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage  of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."
 
 At this time, I served with a small Marine unit that was called the Combined Action Program (CAP) and was essentially a Vietnamese farming-village's counter-terrorist team.   I didn't think that I was a hero, but I strongly felt that I served with heroes.  There were over two million real heroes that served  in Vietnam, and my story is just one of many thousands of other struggles that veterans have been forced to face.   The small CAP units served round the clock in Vietnamese farming-villages where they defended  the villagers from various  levels of terrorist attacks. The young American Marines were forced to use violence, but it was balanced with friendship and kindness even more. The warriors treated the people using basic average human instinct and character.  They were nicknamed "the Peace Corps volunteers with rifles."  The goal of these American  Marines was to teach the peasants a better way to fish and farm, not hand them fish and rice.  The Duc Duc’s peasants cared for us just as much we cared for them.  This truth was the complete opposite image of what the American news media and John Kerry were highlighting every night.

 I was assigned to the Duc Duc resettlement (or refugee) village where conflict almost immediately greeted us.    There were many times when death was certain- times that many people who have never been in the heat of battle could never understand.   There is no question of  the CAP Teams’ bravery.   Like in all wars, for most Americans in Vietnam bravery was routine. We had to face terrorists everyday.  I was wounded three different times in and outside the village of Duc Duc and received one Purple Heart, because the other two wounds were minor.

 The Duc Duc Resettlement (Refugee) Village- where I was assigned- was defended by the CAP 2-9-2 unit. Duc Duc had a population in the thousands while, with the exception of a handful of villagers who fought alongside the Americans, there were just eight marines on average and as few as four at any given time. Imagine four teenage Americans in a Vietnamese peasant-farming village of thousands.   There were no 'safe-places' for these American college-age kids.  But the Marines were not looking for safe places.  We were there to help and protect innocent people like American service  men  and women have done throughout our country's history. Although the physical wounds that I received protecting the Duc Refugee Village were minor, I strongly feel that I left a major part of myself in Duc Duc.  Years after the war ended, I was debilitated by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

 Months after the last Marines left the village of Duc Duc, it was massacred by communist terrorists.  Hundreds of innocent men, women and children were killed, wounded and reported missing while the village itself was burned to the ground.  The massacre of Duc Duc left me with another lasting impression.   As John Kerry would say, I took the massacre "Deeply Personal."  I had many Vietnamese friends in the village and many great Americans died over the years to protect it.  I wanted people to know the real truth, and I have since built a number of websites and webpages dedicated to the village and the Marines who died.  
 
 As I previously mentioned, although the physical wounds that I received protecting Duc Duc were minor, a great part of myself was left in Duc Duc.   It was a profound and deeply personal experience.  I'll never forget the people of the village and my buddies who protected it and those who died there.  I consider myself a survivor of the Duc Duc Refugee Village.  I was not there for the massacre; In fact, no Americans were there at the time and the village had no military protection in it at all. I strongly believe the peasants were punished, because they supported and helped the Americans when CAP Americans lived there.
 
 When Duc Duc was getting massacred, John Kerry was at his high point labeling Vietnam vets mad killers of the innocent.  Instead of informing the American people about the Duc Duc Massacre, the nightly news covered John Kerry and his fellow antiwar protestors.  When I came home, I was asked on numerous occasions how many babies did I have to kill in my village and did I ever have to burn villages down with the people still in their homes.  I was proud of what I did at Duc Duc and no stupid questions or hateful comments are ever going to take those memories away. Like most Vietnam vets, I would always call myself a proud Vietnam veteran.  But also like most Vietnam vets at the time, I kept my memories to myself.  No one back home wanted to hear them anyway.  They were hearing enough war from John Kerry and his friends.

 During John Kerry's run for president back in 2004, I was extremely involved on the internet effort against him; something that I am very proud of.  A month after President Bush won the election, his campaign team sent me a personalized hand written letter from him thanking me for what I did, but I was not looking for a thank you.  I was just one of thousands of Vietnam vets who tried to get the truth out about Kerry to keep him from being our president.  For years afterwards, the news media and the Democrat Party would later say John Kerry was 'Swift Boated From The Presidency.'   John Kerry got what he deserved.  Kerry's biggest 'brothers' against him were not just proud and honorable swift boat sailors: He had Medal of Honor wearers, Vietnam veteran POW's, American Vietnam special operation veterans and hundreds of thousands of other proud and honorable average vets from each of the branches telling the truth about him. Now John Kerry is again selling out Israel, one of our closest allies, like he sold out our military during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but especially how he sold out his fellow Vietnam vets.       
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