Pretty Definitive Accounts of Kerry and Vietnam Service (Pro and Con) [View All]

[seventhson]

I might quibble with the use of the term "two tours" which may or may not be technically accurate (and if it is NOT I'd appreciate a veteran of Nam telling me so because or straightening this out because it is ANOTHER twisting of the truth by Kerry IMHO)

But these two articles pretty much tell you everything you might like to know about Kerry in Vietnam and the surrounding circumstances.

Kerry volunteered for a "safe" in-country duty but the assignment was changed and became something he had not anticipated.

The stories look like he exhibited courage and daring -- but they may or may not be fluffed up. Who knows. I'd prefer eyewitness accounts and to see the records of the medals published.

The fact that the kid he killed to win the Silver star was a teenager in a loincloth (and was already wounded and downed by another of his crew)is kinda creepy. The killing of the civilian (an old man tending a water buffalo) and a child by Kerry or his crew is also disturbing (but many of my Vietnam Veteran friends and peers were on the frontlines where these horrors were commonplace - so I reserve judgment on that - I blmae the politiciansd not the soldiers in the field unless they were deliberately murdering innocents)

Anyway --- read these and then we can discuss this a little more intelligently okay gang?



http://www.boston.com/globe/specialreports/1996/oct/senate/jk106.htm



http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml