Friday, June 29, 2007

If it's phomy, it's Democrat

Phony Vietnam Vets Proliferate

Since the 1990s, the U.S. Census has occasionally asked people about their military experience, including whether they had served in Vietnam. There were some interesting results.

 In 1995, the census data showed 11.2 million people said they served during the Vietnam war period. But only nine million American actually served in the armed forces during the official Vietnam war period (1964-1975, most U.S. troops were out of Vietnam by 1972, and the big build up didn’t begin until 1965). And only 30 percent of those were actually in Vietnam. That’s 2.7 million troops. The census estimated that, by 1995, only 63 percent of Vietnam veterans were still alive. That meant that 30 years later, Vietnam era veterans who actually served in Vietnam were now only 15 percent of the Vietnam era veterans. Someone is apparently lying to the census. [Free Republic]

*Further analysis shows that the differential matches exactly the number of democrats running for political office during that period..

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The thing is you can be a Vietnam-Era vet and never have served in-county. My uncle has one of the yellow ribbons with the green and red stipes and he was a chaplain's assistant with the 3d ID in Germany.

Anonymous said...

For "race" I like to tell the census guys I am Native American. I was born here after all. Isn't that native?

Anonymous said...

Being a Vietnam era vet is not the same thing as being a Vietnam vet. Chuck the ribbon you speak of is a Vietnam service ribbon. Your uncle that served in Germany if he did not serve in Vietnam has no right to wear it if indeed he is wearing it on his uniform. I am suprised that has not been pointed out to him. I have run into people that lie about serving in Vietnam and so there is no misunderstanding I am not referring to Chucks uncle here it just appears he is under the misconception that vets of that era are entitled to that ribbon which is not the case. But people that served in Vietnam if they talk to one another they can tell. It is just having been there you know things and terminology and slang. I have never understood why someone would want to lie about serving there other than to obtain benifits they are not entitled to which is a violation of the federal crininal code. I do not tolerate these people when run into them either.

Anonymous said...

The scumbag Harkin claimed to be a fighter pilot I believe in Vietnam but is a huge liar.

I also have to note though Bill O'Reilly talks about Vets like the swift Boat Vets he does not have an ounce of understanding about Veterans or there issue's.

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