Kerry, History Repeats Itself: “Patriotism is Truth, Today As In Vietnam"

[kerrygoddess]

For John Kerry, History Repeats Itself: “Patriotism is Truth, Today As In Vietnam”
April 21st, 2006 @ 10:53 pm

April 22 is a day that has historical significance in the life of John Kerry. On April 22, 1970 he was instrumental in the first Earth Day in Massachusetts. One year later on April 22, 1971, John Kerry testified before the Senate Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Fulbright Commission on the Vietnam War, it was day that he and many others across this country will never forget.

It was on that day that Kerry sat in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and asked “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”



Saturday, April 22, 2006, now thirty-five years later, as history is repeating itself in Iraq, John Kerry is making history on the anniversary of his Senate testimony, as he takes to the podium at Boston’s Faneuil Hall to ask once again “Where are the leaders of our country? Where is the leadership?”

Generals, veterans, elected officials and Gold Star mothers who ask tough questions and dare to stand and speak the truth to power, are being attacked. They all have a right to speak up as Americans, and we all have an obligation to speak out against a President who is wrong — a policy that is wrong — and a war in Iraq that weakens our country.

The following OP/ED from Senator John Kerry that coincides with his speech at Faneuil Hall…

Patriotism is truth, today as in Vietnam
By John F. Kerry | April 22, 2006

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago today, I testified before the United States Senate. I was a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran who believed the war had to come to an end.

It was 1971.

MORE - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=2722

[wisteria]

1. Nice. I am excited about the speech! n/t

[kerrygoddess]

2. Me too!

John Kerry ... Speaking the truth to power (and the people)!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. did you sign the KERRY petition, KERRY-goddess?

http://www.johnkerry.com/action/deadline/?sc=e.20060418

would you like to see why Big John wants peace? Read this letter from another swift-boat vet:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2583517

[kerrygoddess]

4. Well of course I signed it

And posted this on my blog with a link to it



I love that letter - thank you for sharing it. You should post it in the comments on this thread on the Dem Daily!

[jarnocan]

5. in the comments

I always write something about, facing reality, restoring our democracy and impeaching Bush

[kerrygoddess]

6. all good things

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[kerrygoddess]

7. Kick

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