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About Ted Sampley The vet Kerry Hates the Most |
About Ted Sampley The vet Kerry Hates the Most
Lifted from: http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/sampbio.htm
Ted Sampley is publisher/writer of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch and has
been since 1986. Over those years, millions of copies of the U.S.
Veteran Dispatch and other POW/MIA related materials have been given
away free to the public, most of which have been critical of the U.S.
government's handling of the POW/MIA issue.
Because the U.S. Veteran Dispatch does not sell advertising, the free
newspaper and other POW/MIA related materials are paid for with money
earned from the sale of military and veteran related pins, patches,
t-shirts, POW/MIA bracelets, etc.
Sampley joined the Army in 1963 when he was seventeen years old. He
went through Basic Training, Advanced Infantry Training and Airborne
School.
In June 1964, he was assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade on the
island of Okinawa.
On May 5,1965, Sampley was deployed to Vietnam with the 173rd, where
he served in a combat unit until April 1966. He participated in combat
operations in the Iron Triangle, War Zone D, Ben Cat, the Ho Bo Woods
and other areas of South Vietnam.
In 1969, after being trained as a Green Beret, Sampley was reassigned
to 5th Special Forces Group, Vietnam.
In Vietnam, Staff Sergeant Sampley served in the B-36 Mike Force, as a
company commander of a CIDG company, operating mostly along the
Cambodian border.
During that year of combat service, Sampley was awarded four Bronze
Stars, the Army Commendation Medal and the Vietnamese Cross of
Gallantry.
In 1970, Sampley was reassigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group at
Fort Bragg where he continued his military training.
Sampley's training in the Army included Operations and Intelligence,
methods of prisoner of war interrogation, escape and evasion training,
guerrilla warfare training, understanding, the Viet Cong
infrastructure, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and he
had a working knowledge of two languages, Arabic and Japanese.
In Special Forces, (1968) Sampley was one of a handful of American
soldiers chosen to attend the British Jungle Warfare School in
Malaysia.. Sampley was trained for eight weeks by British, Australian
and New Zealand instructors in the "art of jungle warfare," including
methods of visually tracking humans in the jungle.
While in Malaysia Sampley was required to wear British uniform because
the British did not want to publicize that they were training U.S.
soldiers to fight in Vietnam.
From 1971 to 1973,. Sampley worked during his off-duty time as a
volunteer for Americans Who Care, a POW/MIA group in Fayetteville,
N.C., that was lobbing for the safe return of all U.S. POWs held by
the communists in North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
After 10 years of service, Sampley left the Army with a Honorable
Discharge in 1973.
In 1983, after he became aware that Hanoi had not released all living
American POWs in 1973, Sampley became re-involved as a POW/MIA
activist demanding for the U.S. government to put more pressure on
Hanoi to either release the men or explain what happened to them.
He has led many demonstrations in Washington, D.C demanding that both
the U.S. and Vietnamese governments account for the U.S. servicemen
known to have been alive in captivity but never released.
Sampley was honored for "Exemplary Service To Veterans" by the
Washington, D.C. based National Vietnam Veterans Coalition on May 6,
1985, in New York at the Coalition's Leadership Breakfast.
On April 17, 1988, the mayor of Kinston, North Carolina, gave special
recognition to Sampley for an "excellent job and continued interest in
and service to the handicapped."
In October of 1988, Sampley led a group of activists into communist
Laos, where they handed out leaflets offering a reward for missing
U.S. servicemen. Two of the group were captured by the communists and
held for 41 days. Sampley was detained by Thai authorities for
crossing back into Thailand from Laos.
Sampley is publisher/editor/writer of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch. He
was appointed chairman of the non-profit Last Firebase Veterans
Archives Project in 1988. That group created one of the largest
collections of privately held POW/MIA files. The chairmanship of the
Last Firebase is a non-paid position.
From 1986 to 2003, the Last Firebase kept a non-stop, manned 24-hour
vigil for POW's and MIAs in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Sampley testified in 1991 before the Senate Select Committee of
POW/MIA Affairs.
The Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce gave Sampley special recognition
in December, 1991 for his help in the restoration of Kinston's
historic downtown.
North Carolina's Raleigh News and Observer honored Sampley on
September 28, 1992 as their "Tar Heel of the Week and member of a very
special group of North Carolinians who have contributed their time,
skills and talents toward making North Carolina a truly great state
and a wonderful place to live."
After conducting many hours of research, Sampley found compelling
evidence proving that the remains buried in the tomb of the Vietnam
War Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery belonged to Air
Force Lt. Michael Blassie. It was evidence that Sampley said the
Pentagon had deliberately overlooked.
Sampley first made the Unknown Soldier's identity public in the July
1994 issue of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch.
Five years later (1999), the U.S. government under pressure from CBS
television finally used a DNA sample and confirmed that the Vietnam
War Unknown Soldier was indeed Lt. Blassie.
A military honor guard returned Lt. Blassie's remains to his family in
St. Louis, Missouri where he was buried again with full military
honors in a national cemetery.
In February 1996, Sampley was nominated for the Kinston Free Press
"Citizen of the Year" award. The Free Press cited Sampley for the
"good work" he was doing in the community.
Sampley was named Veteran of the Year by VietNow, a national veteran's
organization, and Citizen of the Year by the Wheat Swamp Ruitan Club
of Lenoir County. He is a founding member of the National Alliance of
POW/MIA Families and is one of their annual guest speakers.
Sampley is currently heading up two community service programs in
Kinston: The building of a 158 foot replica of Kinston's Civil War
ironclad CSS Neuse and the National Walk of Honor for Veterans. He is
president of Sampley Enterprises, a for profit corporation in North
Carolina and co-owns Kinston's Broken Eagle Eatery .
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| User: "Roger" |
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| Title: Re: About Ted Sampley The vet Kerry Hates the Most |
01 Apr 2004 05:01:03 AM |
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"Yangs Place Of Liberal Fools" <xarboz6@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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About Ted Sampley The vet Kerry Hates the Most
Lifted from: http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/sampbio.htm
From http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/politics/campaign/14VET.html
February 14, 2004
McCain Fights Old Foe Who Now Fights Kerry
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 - Senator John McCain came to the defense of a fellow
Vietnam War veteran, Senator John Kerry, on Friday by attacking the
credibility of a North Carolina veteran who has dedicated himself to
defeating Mr. Kerry in his campaign for president.
Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, called the man, Ted Sampley, "one of the
most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter."
Mr. Sampley, a businessman from Kinston, N.C., has gained some attention in
recent days for operating a Web site devoted to attacking Mr. Kerry, a
Massachusetts Democrat, for his opposition to the war in Vietnam after his
military service. The Web site, www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com,
includes pictures from the 1970's showing Mr. Kerry at antiwar protests. One
shows Mr. Kerry at a rally, sitting several rows behind Jane Fonda, who was
so outspoken against the war that she was labeled a Communist by her
political opponents.
In response to Mr. McCain's remarks about him, Mr. Sampley said in a
telephone interview: "It's not the first time he said that. That's his
opinion. It's unbecoming of a senator to say things like that, but I'm fair
game just like he is."
In 1993, Mr. Sampley was convicted of misdemeanor assault and sentenced to
180 days' probation for attacking a legislative aide to Mr. McCain.
A self-proclaimed champion for veterans' rights, Mr. Sampley has been
criticizing Mr. Kerry for much the same reason he made Mr. McCain a target
for years: Neither man, Mr. Sampley contends, has done enough to investigate
his claim that American servicemen were left behind in Vietnam after the
war.
Mr. Sampley once called Mr. McCain, who was held captive for five years in
North Vietnam, "the Manchurian Candidate," a reference to a 1962 film in
which a Communist-controlled candidate nearly becomes his party's candidate
for president.
In a recent statement posted on his Web site, Mr. Sampley made a similar
suggestion, saying: "I have personally dealt with John Kerry on the issue of
U.S. P.O.W.s left behind in Vietnam. Kerry is not truthful and is not worthy
of the support of U.S. veterans. Many Vietnam vets have been duped into
thinking Kerry is their friend. He is not. To us, he is `Hanoi John.' "
In defending Mr. Kerry, Mr. McCain - who has campaigned for President Bush
this year - said of Mr. Sampley: "I consider him a fraud who preys on the
hopes of family members of missing servicemen for his own profit. He is
dishonorable, an enemy of the truth, and despite his claims, he does not
speak for or represent the views of all but a few veterans."
Mr. Sampley is not the only person actively seeking to discredit Mr. Kerry.
In recent days, a picture showing Mr. Kerry at a podium with Ms. Fonda has
circulated on the Internet. But the picture is a hoax, according to the
photo agency that owns the original, Corbis. In the original photo, Mr.
Kerry is alone at the podium.
Ted Sampley is publisher/writer of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch and has
been since 1986. Over those years, millions of copies of the U.S.
Veteran Dispatch and other POW/MIA related materials have been given
away free to the public, most of which have been critical of the U.S.
government's handling of the POW/MIA issue.
Because the U.S. Veteran Dispatch does not sell advertising, the free
newspaper and other POW/MIA related materials are paid for with money
earned from the sale of military and veteran related pins, patches,
t-shirts, POW/MIA bracelets, etc.
Sampley joined the Army in 1963 when he was seventeen years old. He
went through Basic Training, Advanced Infantry Training and Airborne
School.
In June 1964, he was assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade on the
island of Okinawa.
On May 5,1965, Sampley was deployed to Vietnam with the 173rd, where
he served in a combat unit until April 1966. He participated in combat
operations in the Iron Triangle, War Zone D, Ben Cat, the Ho Bo Woods
and other areas of South Vietnam.
In 1969, after being trained as a Green Beret, Sampley was reassigned
to 5th Special Forces Group, Vietnam.
In Vietnam, Staff Sergeant Sampley served in the B-36 Mike Force, as a
company commander of a CIDG company, operating mostly along the
Cambodian border.
During that year of combat service, Sampley was awarded four Bronze
Stars, the Army Commendation Medal and the Vietnamese Cross of
Gallantry.
In 1970, Sampley was reassigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group at
Fort Bragg where he continued his military training.
Sampley's training in the Army included Operations and Intelligence,
methods of prisoner of war interrogation, escape and evasion training,
guerrilla warfare training, understanding, the Viet Cong
infrastructure, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and he
had a working knowledge of two languages, Arabic and Japanese.
In Special Forces, (1968) Sampley was one of a handful of American
soldiers chosen to attend the British Jungle Warfare School in
Malaysia.. Sampley was trained for eight weeks by British, Australian
and New Zealand instructors in the "art of jungle warfare," including
methods of visually tracking humans in the jungle.
While in Malaysia Sampley was required to wear British uniform because
the British did not want to publicize that they were training U.S.
soldiers to fight in Vietnam.
From 1971 to 1973,. Sampley worked during his off-duty time as a
volunteer for Americans Who Care, a POW/MIA group in Fayetteville,
N.C., that was lobbing for the safe return of all U.S. POWs held by
the communists in North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
After 10 years of service, Sampley left the Army with a Honorable
Discharge in 1973.
In 1983, after he became aware that Hanoi had not released all living
American POWs in 1973, Sampley became re-involved as a POW/MIA
activist demanding for the U.S. government to put more pressure on
Hanoi to either release the men or explain what happened to them.
He has led many demonstrations in Washington, D.C demanding that both
the U.S. and Vietnamese governments account for the U.S. servicemen
known to have been alive in captivity but never released.
Sampley was honored for "Exemplary Service To Veterans" by the
Washington, D.C. based National Vietnam Veterans Coalition on May 6,
1985, in New York at the Coalition's Leadership Breakfast.
On April 17, 1988, the mayor of Kinston, North Carolina, gave special
recognition to Sampley for an "excellent job and continued interest in
and service to the handicapped."
In October of 1988, Sampley led a group of activists into communist
Laos, where they handed out leaflets offering a reward for missing
U.S. servicemen. Two of the group were captured by the communists and
held for 41 days. Sampley was detained by Thai authorities for
crossing back into Thailand from Laos.
Sampley is publisher/editor/writer of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch. He
was appointed chairman of the non-profit Last Firebase Veterans
Archives Project in 1988. That group created one of the largest
collections of privately held POW/MIA files. The chairmanship of the
Last Firebase is a non-paid position.
From 1986 to 2003, the Last Firebase kept a non-stop, manned 24-hour
vigil for POW's and MIAs in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Sampley testified in 1991 before the Senate Select Committee of
POW/MIA Affairs.
The Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce gave Sampley special recognition
in December, 1991 for his help in the restoration of Kinston's
historic downtown.
North Carolina's Raleigh News and Observer honored Sampley on
September 28, 1992 as their "Tar Heel of the Week and member of a very
special group of North Carolinians who have contributed their time,
skills and talents toward making North Carolina a truly great state
and a wonderful place to live."
After conducting many hours of research, Sampley found compelling
evidence proving that the remains buried in the tomb of the Vietnam
War Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery belonged to Air
Force Lt. Michael Blassie. It was evidence that Sampley said the
Pentagon had deliberately overlooked.
Sampley first made the Unknown Soldier's identity public in the July
1994 issue of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch.
Five years later (1999), the U.S. government under pressure from CBS
television finally used a DNA sample and confirmed that the Vietnam
War Unknown Soldier was indeed Lt. Blassie.
A military honor guard returned Lt. Blassie's remains to his family in
St. Louis, Missouri where he was buried again with full military
honors in a national cemetery.
In February 1996, Sampley was nominated for the Kinston Free Press
"Citizen of the Year" award. The Free Press cited Sampley for the
"good work" he was doing in the community.
Sampley was named Veteran of the Year by VietNow, a national veteran's
organization, and Citizen of the Year by the Wheat Swamp Ruitan Club
of Lenoir County. He is a founding member of the National Alliance of
POW/MIA Families and is one of their annual guest speakers.
Sampley is currently heading up two community service programs in
Kinston: The building of a 158 foot replica of Kinston's Civil War
ironclad CSS Neuse and the National Walk of Honor for Veterans. He is
president of Sampley Enterprises, a for profit corporation in North
Carolina and co-owns Kinston's Broken Eagle Eatery .
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: About Ted Sampley The vet Kerry Hates the Most |
01 Apr 2004 09:05:21 AM |
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"Yangs Place Of Liberal Fools" <xarboz6@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4635245.0403311952.7e826b64@posting.google.com...
LMAO! Could the Bush supporters' utter desperation possibly be any more
obvious?
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| User: "Peter Vos" |
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01 Apr 2004 12:30:38 AM |
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(Yangs Place Of Liberal Fools) wrote in
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About Ted Sampley The vet Kerry Hates the Most
he shows up in the newsgroups periodically, spouts his line, drops his
links, but runs away when asked anything about the charges leveled against
him....
he's a no show
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