Presidential race: Contrasting Obama, McCain

Don Bendell, 61, of Florence ( don@donbendell.com ) is an author of 25 books with more than 1.5 million copies in print worldwide. He served as an officer in Army Special Forces (Green Berets), including a 1968-69 combat tour in Vietnam, and is in the International Karate Hall of Fame.I lived with Montagnard tribespeople in 1968 and 1969 in Vietnam, among a tough, dark-skinned, primitive, aboriginal race of warriors. Plar was a cute, lovable 8-year old orphan of the Jeh tribe whose parents were both murdered by the Viet Cong. They had no right to vote, no schools, no medical care, no equal representation in government. I really loved Plar and obtained through channels the paperwork to adopt her, but while I was out in the jungle on an operation for two weeks, my allies, some so-called friendly Vietnamese in my camp, raped and murdered her and tossed her body into the barbed wire on our perimeter. Don't try to tell me that I do not understand or care about racism simply because I am a ...
Originally from: http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2008/06/29/editorial/columns/doc4866f0e5186e4776502229.txt

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