My dad was better than John Kerry

October 2, 2019 By Steve Feinstein

Former Mass. senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry is an accurate precursor for today's 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls. Unbearably self-absorbed and phony, Kerry's military career was rife with controversy, surrounded by justifiable doubt regarding the legitimacy of his having been awarded three Purple Heart medals. Kerry should have sloughed off the very idea of accepting those Purple Hearts for injuries no worse than a shaving cut, but he didn't. Kerry simply used his military service as a box to be checked off, to fulfill a requirement for his future political ambitions.............. contrast to the way the Greatest Generation served their country.

 Very few, if any, soldiers serving in combat in WWII publicly identified themselves as Democrats or Republicans, as liberals or conservatives.  They were simply Americans, united by a common goal, loyal to the country and to each other.

So it was with my dad.  He served in the 338th Field Artillery Battalion in Italy.  My dad was an F.O. (forward observer).........Obviously, the Germans hated the F.O.s,.............Germans spotted them and brought their own 88mm guns to bear on the house........My dad was struck in the head by a falling beam. The survivors managed to get back to base, and my dad was sent to the rear for emergency surgery, which included the placement of a steel plate in his head..........After the war, my dad returned home; got a degree in civil engineering under the G.I. Bill; earned a modest, respectable blue-collar salary in the construction industry; and raised his family. He never spoke of the war.........

Today's Democrats employ Kerry-like reasoning in every move they make, in every vote they take............My dad was better than that.

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