Kev Gillett is a Vietnam Vet–from Australia. Oh, I’m sorry. You thought Johnson took us into Vietnam unilaterally.
Kev is pissed. And so is Peter:
This isn’t about George Bush or who has a Senate majority for me. It isn’t about politics. It’s about a bunch of young men who never grew old. It’s about the families of some 58,000 men who cannot answer the slander that this War Hee-row has never retracted.
I tried to answer that slander in 1971, I had no one to hear my voice. No way to reach anyone but my family. I have that way now, if only commenting on other people’s forums.
It isn’t about me. It isn’t even about politics. It’s about restoring the honor to the 58,000 names carved in black granite.
Peter left that as a comment on this post.
Kev had something else to add:
If you were the man who, in 1970, phoned the recently bereaved parents of a mate from my battalion and told them he deserved to die or the man in Adelaide who told me the dead of Long Tan deserved to die or the young women, who in 1971, ask me how many babies I had killed, or anyone who agreed with them then read the letter and look into your soul.
This is the essence of the Swift Boat campaign. It is something Kerry nor his minions in MSM or MoveOn.org or Hollywood can grasp because they’ve never felt this sense of Honor. With a capital H.