- 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.
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- 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!"
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- 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.
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- 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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- Clearly Sampley has gotten under Kerry's skin once again.
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- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/31/225546.shtml
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