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    If you really don't care who is elected in November then hit delete, reading this would probably be a waste of your time. Carl W





    Why should you care how "Jeremiah Denton" feels about
    John Kerry? First, let's make certain we know exactly who
    Jeremiah Denton is, because in our world today,
    Americans who have given so much for their country
    .... are often "unknown".

    Who Is Jeremiah Denton?

    In 1973, Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. walked off an Air Force
    C-141 aircraft to freedom after being held captive in
    North Vietnam for more than seven years.



    Born in 1924 in Mobile Alabama, Denton graduated
    from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.

    In June 1965, he was assigned to Attack Squadron 75 on
    the USS Independence flying the Grumman A-6 Intruder.

    On 18 July 1965, while pulling up after leading a bombing attack
    on enemy installations near Thanh Hoa, he was shot down and
    captured by North Vietnamese troops.

    While held prisoner, Denton became the first American subjected
    to four years of solitary confinement. In 1966, during a television
    interview by the North Vietnamese and broadcast on American
    television, Denton gained national attention when, while being
    questioned, he blinked his eyes in Morse code, repeatedly spelling
    out the covert message
    "T-O-R-T-U-R-E". During his captivity
    he frequently served as the senior American military officer
    in numerous camps in and around Hanoi.

    On 12 February 1973, Denton was released and promoted to rear
    admiral in April 1973. In 1976 Denton's Vietnam experience was
    chronicled in the book When Hell Was in Session, and in an NBC
    movie of the same title, which won the 1979 Peabody Award. In
    1979 Denton retired from the Navy as Commandant of the Armed
    Forces Staff College and returned to Mobile, Alabama.

    During his 34 years of military service, he received numerous
    awards and honors, to include:
    * the Navy Cross,
    * Three Silver Stars,
    * The Distinguished Flying Cross, and
    * Two Purple Hearts.

    In November 1980, Denton became the first retired
    flag officer ever elected to the U.S. Senate. Some of
    his major committee assignments included:
    the Judiciary Committee,
    the Armed Services Committee,
    and the Veterans Affairs Committee.

    In 1983, Denton founded the National Forum
    Foundation Dedicated to the concept of One
    Nation under God, the institution of the family,
    welfare reform, and peacekeeping and
    humanitarian affairs.

    In 1987, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan
    to be Chairman of the Presidential Commission on
    Merchant Marine and Defense.

    Among many other legislative accomplishments, Denton
    established the highly acclaimed international aid program
    known as The Denton Program, responsible for transporting
    over 20 million pounds of critical equipment and supplies to
    needy people throughout the world. Denton currently serves as
    President of the National Forum Foundation and lectures on
    national and international affairs.

    He and his wife Jane reside in Mobile, Alabama.
    They have 7 children and 15 grandchildren.


    Who is John Kerry?

    03/09/04
    By JEREMIAH DENTON
    (Rear Admiral, US Navy, Retired)
    (Former POW)

    Special to the Register

    Knowing that I served in the U.S. Senate with John Kerry
    and that, like him, I am a veteran of the Vietnam War, many
    people have asked me what I think of him, particularly now
    that he's the apparent presidential nominee of the
    Democratic Party.

    When Kerry joined me in the Senate, I already knew about
    his record of defamatory remarks and behavior criticizing
    U.S. policy in Vietnam and the conduct of our military
    personnel there. I had learned in North Vietnamese
    prisons how much harm such statements caused.

    To me, his remarks and behavior amounted to giving aid
    and comfort to our Vietnamese and Soviet enemies. So I
    was not surprised when his subsequent overall voting
    pattern in the Senate was consistently detrimental to
    our national security. Considering his demonstrated
    popularity during the Democratic primaries, I earnestly
    hope the American people will soberly consider Kerry's
    qualifications for the presidency in light of his position
    and record on both our cultural war at home and on
    national security issues.

    To put it bluntly, John Kerry exemplifies the very reasons
    that I switched to the Republican Party. Like the majority
    in his political party, he has proven by his words and actions
    that his list of priorities ... his ideas on what most needs to be
    done to improve this country ... are almost opposite to my own.
    Here are two issue areas that I consider top priorities: the war
    over the soul of America, and national security.

    Top priority should be placed on an effort to recover
    our most fundamental founding belief that our national
    objectives, policies and laws should reflect obedience to
    the will of Almighty God. Our Declaration of Independence,
    our national Constitution and each of the states' constitutions
    stress that basic American national principle. For about 200
    years, the entire country, both parties and all branches of
    government understood that principle and tried to follow it
    ... if imperfectly.

    For some 50 years, our nation's opinion-makers, our courts
    and, gradually, our politicians have been abandoning our
    historical effort to be "one nation under God" in favor of
    becoming "one nation without God," with glaringly
    unfavorable results.

    I believe our political leaders, educational system, parents
    and opinion-makers must all return to teaching the truth most
    emphasized by our Founding Fathers. George Washington called
    religious belief indispensable to the prosperity of our democracy.
    William Penn said, "Men must choose to be governed by God or
    condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants." And when asked
    what caused the Civil War, President Lincoln said,
    "We have forgotten God."

    In these days we have not only forgotten God, we are by
    our new standards of government and culture rejecting
    him as the acknowledged creator and as the endower of
    our rights. As a result, we are suffering cultural decay and
    human unhappiness. The decline of the institution of the
    family is the most obvious result. Perhaps the current
    movie, "The Passion of the Christ," will help many to
    come to realize the cost of the redemption of our sins,
    and the destructiveness of sin.

    Let's remember that over 95 percent of Americans during
    our founding days were Christians, and though our Founding
    Fathers stipulated that no one was to be compelled to believe
    in any religion, and also stipulated that there would be no
    single Christian denomination installed as a national religion,
    there was no question that our laws were to be firmly based
    on the Judean Ten Commandments and on Christ's mandate
    to love your neighbor as you love yourself. That setup brought
    us amazing success as a nation, lifting us from our humble
    beginnings, through crisis after crisis, to become the
    leading nation of the world.

    Now, though, we are throwing away the very source of our
    strength and greatness. Yet I am not giving up on our country.
    I am encouraged at the stand and the attitude of our president,
    and inspired by his courage. There are many more of his stripe
    in Washington now. Though Rome and other empires have
    decayed and fallen, the cultural war in the United States can
    and should be won by the majority of Americans ...
    a majority to whom Kerry and the Democrats disdainfully
    refer to as the "far right." They are people who believe in God
    and in the original concept of "one nation under God."

    As a nation, we are now at the point of no return.
    The GOOD GUYS are finally angry enough to join
    the fray, and I pray we are not too late. John Kerry
    is not among the good guys.

    The Democratic Party isn't, either.

    Indeed, on the subject of national security, John Kerry
    epitomizes a fatal weakness in the Democratic Party.
    During the decisive days of the Cold War, after the
    Democratic Party changed during the mid-1960s, the
    party was on the wrong side of every strategic debate
    on policy regarding Vietnam and the USSR, and is now
    generally on the wrong side in the war on terrorism.

    The truth is that the Cold War was barely won by a narrow
    margin ... a victory and a margin determined by the political
    choices made by our government regarding suitable steps to
    deter Soviet attack and finally win the Cold War. If the U.S.
    had followed the Democratic Party line, the Cold War would
    have concluded with the U.S. having to surrender without a
    fight, or the U.S. would have been defeated in a nuclear war
    with acceptable losses to the USSR. It was not Johnson and
    Carter and the Democrats; it was Reagan and Bush, and
    the Republicans who led us to victory in the Cold War.

    And George W. Bush and the Republican majority ...
    not John Kerry and the Democrats ... can lead us
    to victory in the war on terrorism.

    Jeremiah Denton; Rear Admiral, US Navy, Retired

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    Re: A Real Hero's Viewpoint!

    What a letter from someone who has faced the fire and lived to tell about it. Just one reason why I vote Republican

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