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You may have already seen this, but if you haven't, this is a snip from a website called thedailybrew.com -- I recommend sending it to all those "undecideds" that you know. Here it is:
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It is 1969. You are a 21 year old kid in the Navy, serving on a Swift boat in Vietnam. <snip>
Right now you are on patrol in the Mekong Delta, and you have run into an ambush. A mine goes off under your boat, throwing you in the water and injuring your skipper. Weighed down by guns, grenades, and ammunition, you sink to the bottom while five more boats pass overhead. You shed your gear and surface. As the boats disappear down the river, you are taking machine gun and small arms fire from both banks of the river. You can’t swim to either side without getting shot, and even if you did, getting captured means getting killed. You have one, and only one chance, to get out alive. You have to hope that your skipper turns his boat around, heads back into the crossfire over the mine infested water, reaches down with his bloody arm, and drags you back up on the boat.
Now for the quiz.
Who would you rather have as your skipper, George Bush or John Kerry?
Jim Rassmann is alive and well living on the Oregon coast because when it happened to him, his skipper was John Kerry. <more...>
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