Was the reason Kerry wouldn't  release medical records because they describe self-inflicted wounds in Vietnam?
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Yes, the idiot in qestion was improperly handling a hand grenade...playing around with it.  On a further note, Kerry was unfavorably discharged(not dishonorably..although that's debatable!) and Jimmy Carter...the peanut farmer, who tried to run America(into the ground), changed it to honorable.
575427
They didn't treat it enough in the Vietnam era, if at all. I think it was still called 'shell shock' even then. Most of the PTSD was miscatagorized or untreated. On top of the length of the conflict, (remember, we were never officially at war with Vietnam), and the span that veterans came back home, as well as things that developed much later in the Veteran's life. We simply did not have the funding for PTSD back then.\nNow we are helping to classify potential 'not yet diagnosed' cases during the time when Veterans are returning or have returned from the Persian Gulf . There's more funding for treatment and study today.
84283
I was a Medic with the 4th Division in Vietnam.\nWe did everything the infantry did until someone was hurt or killed. Myself I'm 100% disabled because of the Vietnam war. I was not only wounded twice but had cancers due to agent orange and PTSD. It was terrible. I not only had to try and patch up my friends but I had to try and find their body parts to ship home to their families.
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unlike criminal background, mental illness is not on your record. In fact the hospitals are not allowed to state that you have been a patient there unless it has been supoenaed to go to court which it would have to be supreme court on a felony charge. Now if you mental illnes is a disability and you get a federal check for it then there could be issues but if you went in the hospital for something like suicide, then no, nooone will ever know unless they knew you were in there or you tell them but it won't stop you from buying a gun.\n\nIf any hospital released ANY information on you without your consent or a court order asking for your records (and there is not such thing as a standing court order that is there to collect patient data for any thing) that hospital just violated your rights and you can sue them. What paperwork you sign stays in the hospital for the hospital's records. NCIC is there for Law Enforcement to use as a way to connect to other agencies when looking for missing persons, stolen items, wanted person, not to tell everyone that you have been in a mental institute.
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good lord k9 when will you learn. they had the same thing in vietnam chay lei or something like that. before you assume our marines slaughtered in cold blood, try something different GET THE FUCKING FACTS. \nINNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY
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I heard it too. The Vietnamese must have taken that as an insult. \nBush avoided going to Vietnam when that war was going on, he has no idea of any lessons learned from Vietnam. How could he, he wasn't there. \nBush wanted instant success, that's why he pushed to invade Iraq on false pretenses. He also knows that his days are numbered once the war in Iraq ends, and war crimes investigations begin.
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I do not believe it , i think he is just trying to cover up for the fact that he got caught telling his true feelings about our military. When Kerry returned from Vietnam he became a war protester and called our service people Baby killers, murderers, and even joined Jane Fonda in visiting communist countries. John Kerry hates our Military and our country, he will never Ketch-up with his wife or her money if he does not stop revealing his true hatred of America.
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I'm sure somebody used em to describe Vietnam.   I think, though, that the issue they're talking about is our responsibility to provide stability in government. The removal of Saddam created a very real power vaccume in Iraq. (question of right/wrong in doing so aside) Simply leaving after getting Saddam, would have drawn even more condemnation from the world. The world would  be screamin at us for NOT doing something to help them. As it is, they're screaming at us FOR doing somehthing. Whether or not what we're doing is effective, is another story.
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In order to allow the USA to leave the Vietnam War in 1973 and hopefully get Americans minds off of Watergate, the US agreed to drop the cases of approximately 1500 servicemen believed to be alive and held in Laos. The United States unilaterally changed the designation from Missing in Action to Dead. There has been very little political will on the part of the US government and very little ability to mobilize public support for this cause, in part because there have been some very embarrassing and some even dishonest people who have been part of the public relations (money has gone to people other than what was intended, there was a reported trade in information on persons known to be killed, etc). There has also been a reported rift between the veterans' and the POW/MIA movements that might have been started by the government to trivialize both parties' concerns.
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Most all records have been open for a long time. How reliable they are is questionable. You have to ask yourself, what could be so bad that it needs to be kept away from citizens. The answer to me is obvious. What happen after JFK was killed? What political course did we go towards? What was LBJ's agenda for Vietnam, and who was he serving?
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i don't think thats what caused it. maybe it was something that happened in Vietnam
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I found two places that greatly explained why it helps.  The first quote below is part of an entire article on why Records in Health Care benefit certain things.\n\n"...Bradshaw and Braid remind us, the prime motivators for improvement in health care record keeping, have to support the defence of malpractice claims, as well to encourage health care research, audit and evaluation activity..."\n\nhttp://www.podiatry.curtin.edu.au/ebp.html\n\nThis next one is from the Commander In Chief from 2002.\n\n\n"...One area that will benefit males and females alike is better health care record keeping.  We believe that every soldier, airman, marine, sailor and coast guardsman is entitled to a comprehensive life-long medical record of illnesses and injuries they suffer, the care and inoculations they receive, and their exposure to different hazards, including pre-and post-deployment examinations..."\n\nhttp://www.house.gov/hasc/pressreleases/2002/02-03-13manhan.html\n\nThere you go!  Hope that helped.
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That's because Vietnam War (Second Indochina War and also called American War) is not a good memory among the war veterans (and of course no body will brag about it).\n\nOne of the reason is because US, though not defeated, lost the war. I think no US citizen or military will admit this but this is the truth.\n\nAnd also, the moral of US troops at that time is so low. In 1969, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre and its cover-up, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. It came to light that Lt. William Calley, a platoon leader in Vietnam, had led a massacre of several hundred Vietnamese civilians, including women, babies, and the elderly, at My Lai a year before.\n\nThe massacre was only stopped after three US soldiers (Glenn Andreotta, Lawrence Colburn and Hugh Thompson, Jr.) noticed the carnage from their helicopter and intervened to prevent their fellow soldiers from killing any more civilians. Calley was given a life sentence after his court-martial in 1970, but was later pardoned by President Nixon.\n\nUS also used chemical defoliants extensively, leaving much of the region poisoned to the local population. One of the chemical is Agent Orange that until now still continue to change landscape, cause diseases and poisoning within food-chain in the areas where they were used. And there're about six million unexploded US bombs and mines still left in that region. This caused a major problem in agriculture and the cost of removing all of these is very enomorous.\n\nVietnam War also responsible for young US citizen of baby-boom that time and mass-emmigration from Vietnam (primarily to six countries: US, Canada, Australia, France, Great Britain, and East Germany.\n\nAnd many of (if not all) Vietnam War veterans have problems with readjusting to society and experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, previously known as battle fatigue. Also Vietnam War veterans were looked down upon by the veterans of World War II and were excluded from war veteran organizations for a number of years on the grounds that the Vietnam War veterans did not fight a "real war". This happened not only in US but also in Astralia and New Zealand.\n\nThat's why Vietnam War isn't popular to the American youth. In fact, I think no one want to even remember that there was a Vietnam War in the first place.
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Well, after Vietnam one would have thought the American government learnt its lesson.  But I guess not.  In Vietnam, the Americans were so thoroughly whipped that it taught them a lesson for about 15 years and they didn't do any bullying.  I guess they got arrogant again and needed another lesson.\n\nThey are now trying go get out of Iraq.  The indomitable human spirit always wins  :)
954435
Ah, that is NOT what he said.\n\nHe was talking about staying in school so they don't get "stuck in Iraq."\n\nNot quite the same.\n\nMr Kerry served in the military.
724932
Kerry should be forced to resign and jailed for treason . How do we get started ?\n This is a traitor who , during Viet Nam , pretended to be wounded -got his band-aid..then later applied for a war medal for his fake injury -as well as time off to attend secret meetings with the enemy . Why was he not jailed for treason back then ? Today , there are many former P.O.W.'s who were captive at the time of John Kerry's public denouncing & lies on America's military-and those men tell how they were tortured every time the Communist heard kerry's words . John Kerry is now honored in the Communist War Museum AS A HERO WHO HELPED THE COMMUNIST WIN THE VIET NAM WAR AGAINST AMERICA . \nIf that alone does not qualify resignation ( at the very least ) ; his outrageous lies on Monday , calling our troops stupid & uneducated , are grounds for aiding & abetting the enemy who are killing our brave intelligent real heroes in Iraq .
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By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago \nWASHINGTON - \nPersonal data, including\nSocial Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month after he took the information home without authorization, the department said Monday. \nLast year, more than 260,000 veterans could not sign up for services because of cost-cutting. Audits also have shown the agency used misleading accounting methods and lacked documentation to prove its claimed savings."\n\nWell, this administration appears to have issues without having anything stolen.\n\nThose in the service 1975 and after are many military who were in quite a few skirmishes that the government had, including those in Iraq.\n\nI hope they have hard copies somewhere, which they probably don't. Proving a negative is going to be hard for a lot of men who are eligible for benefits. How do you get benefits if you can't prove you are eligible for them? It will be up to the serviceman to prove, Hate to be them.\n\n26.5 MILLION RECORDS from 1975 to present