It appears SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP is a John Kerry wannabe. Kerry and his bogus "Band of Bums" -- who misnamed themselves "Vietnam Veterans Against the War" and conducted "Winter Soldier" tribunals* -- were for the most part neither veterans nor Vietnam veterans. The few who were actual veterans lied about their rank and their service, including the Executive Secretary of the VVAW, Al Hubbard, who claimed to be a wounded Air Force Captain and pilot but was actually a SSgt who had never been assigned to Vietnam. Many were Communists, some were deserters, many stole the identies of actual veterans and gave false testimony before the US Senate using those falsified IDs. All of them lied about atrocities they had witnessed being committed. John Kerry presided over this gang and to this day will not repudiate them or their false message.

I was stationed at Richards Gebaur Air Force Base in Kansas City, Missouri, at the time Navy Lt. John F. Kerry presented a speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. That speech, written for him by Robert Kennedy's speech writer Adam Walinsky, which is one of the best-known moments of his life, was given while he was involved with Vietnam Veterans Against the War. [In November of that year, across town from me, the VVAW voted down a plan to assassinate seven U.S. Senators who supported the Vietnam war. One of those senators was my senator, John Tower. John Kerry was at that meeting. Oddly, no one reported the plot to the authorities.] In his speech before the Senate, Lt. John Kerry asked: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" History has shown that our involvement in the war was not a mistake and that the Communists were on the verge of collapse before the anti-war movement reinvigorated them to hold out. By early to mid 1972, the Viet Cong units we faced had been all but destroyed, and their ranks had to be filled with North Vietnamese Regulars. They were working on terms of surrender. We could have won. Sadly, that is history now. Perhaps someday the truth will come out.

Eight of my comrades were shot down over Laos February 5, 1973, five days AFTER the "cease fire", on one of our EC-47s, callsign "Baron 52". The three pilots were killed, but the fate of the other five crewmembers is still not known with certainty to this day. They were simply "written off" by the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA affairs, co-chaired by Senator John F. Kerry. If any of the crew managed to bail out and were captured, the hearings sealed their fate never to be returned. With that said, and having written to the mother of one of those men, my question to John Kerry is, "Senator Kerry, what do you say to a mother whose son you ordered abandoned in Vietnam?"

Fastforward to today, and all that has changed is the location of the battlefields and the technology used to distort the reporting and to agitate for surrender -- AGAIN...and now, the Internet and Talk Radio. Will the Winter Soldier Groundhog finally see his shadow? Are we forever stuck in Winter Soldier Groundhog Day?

...this is my concept of loyalty -- http://www.opaobie.com/promisekept.html

*see "http://www.wintersoldier.com" for details.