TIM RICHARDSON -> BOB KLAHN wrote:
 TR> On 08-10-08, BOB KLAHN said to TIM RICHARDSON:


 BK>>>  When you have done anywhere near as much then you might have
 BK>>>  room to talk. Until then, what you have posted is contemptable.


 JM>>> I have room.


 TR>> How long was John Kerry `in country' again? I forgot.


 BK>> Kerry did two tours. The first on a ship off shore.

"off shore" does not equal "in country". The question
was "How long was John Kerry 'in country' again?"

 TR> Near as I can find....it was about a 4 month deployment aboard the Gridley.
 TR> The Gridley went to several places between February of 1968, and June of
 TR> that
 TR> year. Not all of that time was spent in the Vietman area such that anyone
 TR> could count that time toward `in country' time. The Gridley sailed to
 TR> several
 TR> places during that cruise that were nowhere near Vietnam.


 BK>> The second about three or four months,


 TR> So.......Kerry actually spent less than the full one year that was the
 TR> normal
 TR> tour of the combat zone.


 BK>> in which he won the Silver Star and
 BK>> the Bronze star, with V.


 TR> Thats nice. He also (supposedly) tossed them away. Not to mention giving
 TR> the
 TR> enemy a propaganda victory by joining the likes of Jane Fonda (that `is'
 TR> John
 TR> Kerry in that photo with Fonda during a Vietnam War protest, is it not?)
 TR> and
 TR> her ilk in protests. And did Kerry not actually go to Paris and `talk'
 TR> to the
 TR> Viet Cong?


 TR> Kerry also told a congressional committee that American troops were
 TR> "murdering" 200,000 Vietnamese every year.


 BK>> I recall you were in combat, did you win either of those or a
 BK>> higher decoration?


 TR> No........people in my division weren't allowed to write themselves up for
 TR> medals.


 TR> But...I have rooom to talk also. I saw a lot more combat than Kerry
 TR> did....spent a lot more time `in country' than Kerry did, and didn't treat
 TR> with the enemy in Paris, or lie to Congress.


 BK>> BTW, Kerry had significantly more time in combat than Bob Dole
 BK>> did.


 TR> And far less time than I did.

and your time was *IN* country, not on a ship off shore.

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