This was sent to me from a good friend I have yet to meet. Thus is the strange new world of internet relationships we now find ourselves in. Thomas T. Panto is, as you will see, a veteran of the Vietnam War who is deeply committed to seeing peace come to our world and to hold the enemies to that peace accountable for their crimes – thus his support of our work on this website. ~ Mikael
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The War Protesters of the 60’s SAVED LIVES … Everyone’s Lives… Everywhere on Earth.
I am a Viet-Nam veteran, and so, I thank the PROTESTERS and OBJECTORS who Stood up for Me while I was trapped in Viet-Nam and far too busy living to protest the insanity.
Bush can not lie to me. I, am an EYE WITNESS of that DEMONETIZATION that leads Humanity to SLAUGHTER.
I and Americans had, and still have ONLY the ”history books” written by the ”invading victors”… now I now have my own observations gathered by my own eyes to refute their words.
You may know that the penalty for disobeying an order inside a combat zone is DEATH. You must kill or be ”Hanged”.
Did you know that we, in Viet-Nam, as now in Iraq, were TOLD that we were killing “The Enemy”.
But it was WE who armed those citizens and rebels, the innocent people of Viet-Nam and Iraq, and we LIED to them about why they should murder their own brothers and sisters…
We TOLD those innocent rice farmers of Viet-Nam that ”capitolism” is ”good” and ”communism” is ”bad” and TOLD them to pick up OUR GUNS and KILL EACH OTHER, or else be SHOT for TREASON !!!!
Our Bullets DEMANDED that our victim take up arms and return fire.
… and so, the communists also LIED to the people of the North, telling them that Americans were no different than the French army that we were sent to replace…and they were right.
We, first the French, and then the Americans, (the slaves of capitalismcapitalism), and those Viet-Namese in the north, (the slaves of communism), USED those poor people as CANNON FODDER in OUR personal conflict over MERE POLITICS.
In 1971 John Kerry saved more Lives in ONE DAY than our Battalion of American Tanks could murder in one year.
In 1971 Kerry told congress that the SOLDIERS, (like him and like me) were told LIES and then ORDERED to harm innocent people over POLITICS. Those ORDERS were “The Crime”.
Right now, our soldiers in Iraq, ( and Lebanon, and Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan ) , THINK they are fighting only the ‘enemy’.
But since 1948, we have been the ”Terrorists” and the ”Insurgents” in the middle east. Those are OUR TANKS that the children are throwing their rocks at on every inch of the Middle East.
Washington has been the INVADING Army. USING US. Washington is doing the killing of INNOCENT PEOPLE who were falsely accused in order for Bush to control, the ‘OUR OIL’ in THEIR REGION.
The New LIES, “Terrorists”, replacing the old LIES, “Viet-Cong” , but the ‘Evil’ is the SAME one.
The ATTACKERS of Life CREATED the DEFENDERS of Life.
We were the Liars and the Attackers in Viet-Nam, as we are now in Iraq.
– SP4 Thomas T. Panto – HHC 1st BDE 9 DIV Dong-Tam VN (1968)
God Bless the Protesters
Hey,
I love what you’e doing!
Don’t ever change and best of luck.
Raymon W.
Comment by RaymonWazerri — April 20, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
Thanks Raymon…
Keep coming back here…
Thanks for everything you are doing as well.
Comment by Mikael — April 22, 2007 @ 6:23 am