You refuse to read testimony of other vets?
If you guys read that testimony, and the testimony of veterans, including medics, in the Winter Soldier Investigation (which is what Kerry was reporting on to the the Senate Foreign Relations Committee), you would change your mind. I wouldn't have known the details of this stuff if I hadn't smelled a rat in the impugning of Kerry's war record on this thread.
John Kerry was a true, bone fide hero. His men were devoted to him. He turned against the war. This is what the vets who served under him think of him, including the Republicans:
"Of the nine surviving crewmen, seven, including Mr. Sandusky, have made campaign appearances for Mr. Kerry. Another, Mr. Sandusky said, supports Mr. Kerry but wants nothing to do with politics. The crew has lost touch with the remaining man.
...This is not the first time Vietnam veterans have come to Mr. Kerry's aid...
Vietnam veterans were furious. They formed a group known as the Doghunters... [and] Again, in 1996, when a Boston Globe column attacked Mr. Kerry...his shipmates and other veterans, including his former admiral, came to his defense.
Douglas Brinkley, a historian ...interviewed hundreds of veterans and was struck by their support for Mr. Kerry's candidacy... Many see him as restoring a sense of honor to Vietnam veterans, he said.
Mr. Kerry's war record was examined in great detail by Mr. Brinkley for his book. He had access to Mr. Kerry's voluminous wartime correspondence and diaries; he also conducted interviews with other swift boat personnel, including the crews of Mr. Kerry's two boats.
"I thought I would find dissension in the ranks," Mr. Brinkley said. "Most of them are Republicans. But they all vouched for Kerry in such a singularly high fashion." |
