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This voter ID thing is a POS. As a veteran I consider stealing one's right to vote an act of treason. I cannot tell you what I would say to GOP slime bags who use the force of law while hiding in the flag 58,000 dead Vietnam vets and over 5,000 recent war vets who lost their lives for the right of every voter to vote. . The GOP's attack on the voting rights of minorities, seniors, the disabled, youth and people who would not vote for their sadistic agenda is an ACT OF WAR on the American people. They will even deny a veteran a right to vote for a stinking ID. Voter ID cannot stand and will not stand. Any governor who signs this garbage should directly opposed and called out. You GOP pond slime are predators no better then pedophiles who prey on helpless children. There should be a special place in hell for all of you traitors.
Election fraud is a complete lie. Voters need to get mad and get even. There is no debate on this. Voter ID laws cannot be allowed to stand and must be challenged. The story that I am about to tell is another reason why I am so furious with the GOP. They have no honor. They have no right to deny anyones vote. And they dishonor the men who were killed to maintain the right to vote. YOU EVIL SCUM JUST MAKE ME SICK. AND ALMOST NONE OF YOU EVER SERVED. ALL YOU GOP POLITICIANS ARE IS A BUNCH OF LEECHES.
Now my story.
When I was drafted I knew I was Vietnam bait. I did not want to go and I but I went anyway. So did a lot of other guys and most of us on the plane going to Vietnam were draftees. And when we landed at Cam Rahn Bay we were greeted by the strange smells you get in a tropical country. Each day we assembled all to await our fate in whatever division we would be assigned to. I went to the 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division. And it was a great division to serve in. There I met some of the finest and sometimes some of the strangest people I would ever meet in my life.
As it turned out I was the luckiest man alive when I went to Bravo 1 - 5. There I met Sgt Denison. He was a man of around 50 and was the top sergeant in my company. Were it not for a strange set of circumstances I most likely would not be here today. There would be a series of events and strange twists of fate that would lead me to become first a mail clerk for Sgt Denison and Captain Nawrosky. These men were the two best leaders I ever met. And there is another who lives in Colorado. Ironically what events that would save me would cost the life of another who became a good friend.
I spent three and a half weeks in the field chasing "Charley" (the Viet Cong). Was in the the lead squad where our squad leader killed two VC. We got shelled by our own artillery and it was going to be a long year. The next day I won the drawing to stay with our equipment. I met Sgt Denison that day. Three weeks later we came into the main base and I was put on KP for 8 straight days 5am to 7pm with a fellow named Craig. The last day before I was to return to combat operations I was sent to the orderly room. Sgt Denison asked my how my typing was. I had told him I could type. He said you are now my new mail clerk and Nelson here will train you to be my company clerk because he is leaving in two month. I got a job being RADAR!
The real irony was that I found out later that my new found KP friend Craig had been relieved of being mail clerk because he left the base without permission. When I talked to him later in the war I told him how badly I felt that I had HIS job. He was always so gracious about it and we were great friends. That said I always felt terrible when we got together. What was worse was that in June of 1968 he lost his life to a Chicom grenade on LZ Dog near the Cambodian border. Because he took most of the explosion several others were saved. Writing the sympathy letter to his family was the hardest thing I ever did. His girlfriend later wrote me about the circumstances of his passing. Due to Army rules I could not respond. He was from Arizona.
I wrote 27 sympathy letters that year. And we had many wounded. We probably lost over 200 men in our battalion that year. There was a time I remembered every single name of the men lost in my company.
DENYING THE RIGHT TO VOTE TO MILLIONS OF AMERICAN IS CRIMINAL. THESE MEN DIED FOR NOTHING IF THE GOP SCUM IS ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THIS CRIME. AND IT IS A CRIME. THEY ARE A BUNCH OF GD FILTHY LIARS.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Also, the reasons you are so passionate, the sacrifices and life lessons you have learned as a veteran remind me so much of my father.
He also spoke as you do, from experiences, he wanted those sacrifices to matter. He was a proud decorated veteran of both WWII and Korea.
He would have loved to share a scotch with you, and I would have loved to be in the room to listen to your discussions.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And welcome home, 'Radar'!
From a brother draftee, RVN '69-'70 - USARV Special Troops and 2/501 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division.
barbtries
(28,797 posts)criminal means nothing to republicans. that's been made very clear through the years. they'll grab an election any way they can. it's the greed.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Voting rights of Americans had nothing to do with Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)in our battles, as presented to the men who do the fighting.. then Our Right to Vote is at the very top of the list.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)After all, they had to die to protect our right to vote as well. Whenever I read of an old Vietnamese woman losing her face and limbs in a napalm attack or a depleted uranium baby in Iraq I know it was regrettable but necessary to protect our right to select a leader.