Former
Congressman John Leboutillier reports on a Memorial
Day confrontation between Sen. John Kerry and a fellow
Vietnam veteran:
Democratic senator - and certain presidential
nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a
Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial
Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned.
Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who
served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and
his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 a.m. Monday
morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended
his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley,
the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and
I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you
do not belong here."
At that point a Secret Service officer
told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved
about 6 feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a
HANOI JOHN T-shirt.
Kerry then began talking to a group
of schoolchildren. Sampley then showed the T-shirt to
the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at
the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who
fought in Vietnam."
Just
then Kerry - in front of the school children, other
visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed
the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone,
"Sampley is a felon!"
Kerry was referring to an incident 12
years ago when Sampley confronted Sen. John McCain's
chief aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after
McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate
POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time
was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell
and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and
a broken nose.
Sampley's group, Vietnam Veterans Against
John Kerry, has garnered huge national attention and
has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington
Post and on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country."
Tens of thousands of Vietnam vets have registered their
opposition to Kerry through Sampley's group.
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