Enlightening sight with ex viet vet and local freeper

[historian]

Fellow was sitting outside the supermarket today at a table with an "Impeach Bush Petition".
A local freeper went up to him and said "Hey buddy that ain't patriotic."
The man stood up and stuck his face about one inch from the others face and asked " Hey pal. Were you in viet nam?? Were you wounded? Did you see your friends die? I deserve the right to demand my country back and its idiots like you are turning this country into garbage.!!!!"
The other stepped back, obviously scared to death and slunk back to his car (a SUV of course)
I went over and congratulated the guy for showing courage and intelligence. Not being a citizen i couldnt sign but offered him help if he wanted.

[Prodemsouth]

1. Thanks historian. Most inspiring post of the day.

Thanks and a much desrved kick. Boy, I loved this one. What city/state do you live in?

[rockymountaindem]

2. It's stories like that which preserve my faith in America.

Thanks for sharing. If you don't mind my asking, which country are you from? I always like meeting people from other parts of the world.

[historian]

11. born in england

and partly raised in brazil but have traveled and live all over the world

[JohnyCanuck]

3. I would've paid admission to have seen that. n/t

n/t

[leftchick]

4. thanks for that exchange...

It is brave people like the Vets against War that help to wake this country up!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Wish I'd been there

I'd have gladly signed that petition, and carried it around for him!

[kentuck]

6. :-)__~~

My kind of guy!

[dae]

7. Another Bold Patriot put in his proper place, by a real one.

:dem:Shocked the Hades out of his arse did it?:toast::D

[chookie]

8. Nice story

Because there has been no public discourse, and because they have only been talking between themselves for the last 20 years, they believe the myth they started about the "anti-war" and anti-Bush movements -- that it is just a small, marginal group of out of touch latte-sucking hippie elitists.

What they have missed, and what they are going to learn this year is that the opposition movement is way larger than they fear in their worst nightmares, and that opposition to Bush crosses age groups, political ideologies, income levels, regions.

They have also re-written history on a large scale, and tried to hijack the Ghost of Viet Nam to use for their own purposes. Trouble is -- a lot of us who lived through those days, including LOTS of guys who actually fought and bled there -- are still alive to tell quite another tale.

As a young man in Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, John Kerry movingly asked the question, "Who wants to be the one to ask the last man to die for a mistake in Viet Nam?" I think today he can ask, "Who wants to be the one to ask the last man to die in Iraq for a mistake *and* a lie? George W. Bush is that man."

The vets I know, WWII and Viet Nam -- HATE Bush. I know 78 year old guys who want to tear him apart with their bare hands, because they spent their youth fighting against facism, only to live to see it rise in their own country in their old age. 50 year old guys who can't believe that Bush is putting the country through the trauma of a unwinnable war.

The beginning of the end of this difficult time is going to be regime change in the United States in 2004.

[Old and In the Way]

9. Again it's the Vetrens who can speak with the moral authority on this.

Shades of VietNam all over again. The "Let's keep the war going by sending more troops to be killed for no apparent reason" vs. those who served and know it's wrong.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. Yes sir! I want to hear more stories like this! Take back the country!