Dept of Defense; 503,926 "incidents of desertion" , Vietnam

[LynnTheDem]

The SB Liars seem to be saying only a handful of veterans protested with Kerry?

But according to the Department of Defense, there were 503,926 "incidents of desertion" of active duty troops between July 1, 1966, and December 31, 1973.

That's more soldiers that deserted than the total number of soldiers we have now in the US Army.

There were hundreds of thousands of soldiers -active duty and veterans- who protested the Vietnam war.

This all seems to have been dropped down the Memory Hole. Now it's just Kerry and a handful of other veterans who were against the Vietnam war, says the SBL's revisionist history.

God bless Kerry and all the veterans and soldiers who were brave enough to stand up and speak out against the hellhole of Vietnam, where their comrades were still fighting and dying for nothing.

God bless Kerry and all the veterans and soldiers who didn't just walk away and forget about their comrades who were still fighting and dying for nothing.

God bless Kerry and all the veterans and soldiers who spoke out and demanded the US government BRING THEM HOME.

[dennis4868]

1. I think all soldiers that....

are still alive today should be kissing Kerry's arse for help ending vietnam.....

[Jacobin]

2. I'll second that

[displacedtexan]

3. Plus the millions of us (non military) marching in the streets...

and meeting inductees at the bus station at 6 a.m. to beg them not to go.

[justgamma]

4. Great letter

This is a portion of a ltte, that sums it up nicely.


"Kerry and Dole each offered their lives in combat for their country. They are separated from our war dead by fate and the aim of the enemy. Today in Iraq, the fate of war looms for our soldiers. By the standards being employed by Dole, they will be measured later not by the offer of their lives, but debased according to the severity of their wounds."
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[City Lights]

5. Do they have names to match those 503,926 incidents?

Maybe dub's name is there. There has to be something that dub's scrub team missed when they fixed his records.

[GOPAgainstGW]

6. TOO BAD KERRY WAS KEY TO STOPPING THE WAR-ONEILL WOULD PROBABLY BE DEAD!!