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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: JDN who wrote (497870)	11/24/2003 3:44:21 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) of 769670

The book, titled "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War," will be published by William Morrow on Jan. 6 - just before the start of the Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses in which Kerry is a candidate. Excerpts of the book in the December issue of The Atlantic Monthly - available to subscribers Monday - show Kerry disillusioned with U.S. involvement in the war as he is surrounded by death. "It was when one of your men got hit or you got hit yourself that you felt most absurd - that was when everything had to have a meaning in order for it all to be worthwhile and inevitably Vietnam just didn't have any meaning," Kerry wrote in his war notes. Kerry served as the commander of a Swift boat patrolling the Mekong Delta, and after leaving the Navy joined the anti-war movement. The magazine excerpts portray the violence he witnessed - watching a South Vietnamese soldier's bloody death on an operating table, ordering warning shots that ended up killing a small child, picking up the remains of a dead mercenary. bayarea.com

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