matthew330

So my girlfriend sent me this and asked if this was true...my reply to her is at the bottom. I looked around for some details and could find much about Colliers Int, or HR2883. Any thoughts on letters like this in the first place, I seem to have run across a boatload of them, which seem to have some basis in reality - but i wonder if they are at all real or just written by someone to elicit some sort political reaction suited to their own beliefs.

(btw, my g-friends hardcore liberal, I on the other hand...)

Here goes:

My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the recovery is

>terribly painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they
>had to cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking
>about the pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time

>in the same wound, makes me cringe. That experience, however pales in
>comparison to what I am going through right now, in my heart.
>
>The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by fellow
>citizens, and their leader stirring them up, are breaking my heart
>again. I am being cut in the same scar. How did we who served in
Vietnam
>suddenly become cold-blooded killers, torturers, and rapists, of the
ilk
>of the Nazi SS or the Taliban? Most of us were American soldiers who
>grew up idolizing John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and all the other heroes.
That
>was why I volunteered But for political expediency, John Kerry has
>rewritten history, again. After spending only four months in the
country
>of Vietnam, John Kerry testified before Congress in 1971 with these
>exact words about incidents he supposedly witnessed or heard about from

>other vets: "They 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, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and
>generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
>I was a green beret officer who volunteered for duty in Vietnam and
>fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969 on a Special Forces A-team
on
>the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We were the elite. We saw the

>most action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just
kill
>people, we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out
soap,
>food, and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the
>indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy,
>Baghdad, Saigon, and everywhere American soldiers ever served. We all
>gave away our candy bars and rations to kids. Our hearts to oppressed
>people all over the globe.
>
>My children and grandchildren could read your words, and think those
>horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bold-faced,
>unprincipled liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all
my
>fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I
saw
>none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an army officer, it was my
>obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there not

>a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this
>or having the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a
>liar. Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Senator
>Kerry, to bypass character, integrity, and morality. I earn my green
>beret over and over daily in all aspects of my life.
>
>Eight National Guard green berets, and other National Guard soldiers,
>have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you totally dishonored
>their widows and families by lumping National Guard service in with
>being a draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deserter, just so you

>can try to sabotage the patriotism of our President who proudly served
>as an Air National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his green
beret
>at Fort Bragg right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air
>National Guard, just like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her
>as I am my son. I volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem
whatsoever
>with President Bush being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud
of
>him as our leader.
>
>John Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human rights Bill,
>HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote, and
>thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribespeople in Vietnam died since

>then who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate

>Select Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts

>of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POW's, when you
>held those reins in Congress. You have fought tooth and nail to push
for
>the US to normalize relations with Vietnam for years. Why, Mr. Kerry?
>Simple, your first cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO, of Colliers
>International, recently signed a contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of

>dollars for Collier's International to become the exclusive real estate

>representative for the country of Vietnam.
>
>"Hanoi John," now that it works for you, you beat your chest about your

>Vietnam service, but to me, you are a phony, opportunistic, hypocrite.
>You are one of those politicians that is like a fertilizer machine: all

>that comes out of you is horse manure, and you are spreading it
>everywhere.
>
>Medals do not make a man. Morals do.
>
>
>Don Bendell
>Canon City, Colorado
>
>Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, is a
>best-selling author with over 1,500,000 books in print, a 1995 inductee

>into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in
>southern Colorado.


and my reply:

Yes. It is. It absolutely is. You should vote for Bush....haha. YES!!!

Seriously, what part exactly?.....I know the part is about his accusations of "They personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads....etc,ect" are true. Never heard of Colliers Int, or the HR2833 human rights bill. But regardless, I think the sentiments felt by the author are probably true of a lot of vietnam vets.

So i guess....anyone hear of Colliers Int, or HR2883 and what exactly it was (433 to 1!!) - that seems pretty frickin unbelievable.

Or just thoughts on these types of letters