I looked there for some explantion of the ridge under Bush's suit, but can't find it, so I guess you're just changing the subject. What do you think that ridge is? Do you care if the president is getting secretly fed lines by others?
I did see this at your link:
In Vietnam, Kerry's Swift Boat crew lived through a terrifying demonstration of Kerry's zest for controlled danger. Instead of fleeing during an ambush, Kerry decided to turn his boat and head straight into the guns. At first his men were appalled, several crew members related to NEWSWEEK, but over time they realized that Kerry's boldness was actually clever, that it gave the enemy less to shoot at while his boat was able to close in for the kill. Kerry's coolness under fire was remarkable. It is hard to forget the image of his turning his boat around and reaching over the bow to pull—with a wounded arm—a man from the water while the bullets splattered around them.
To this day Kerry's crewmen, with one or two exceptions, seem to adore him. It is the one group with whom he seems truly comfortable, able to let down his guard. At a recent reunion, the "Band of Brothers," as they were dubbed after Shakespeare's "Henry V," were able to josh and tease their old captain. Kerry teased them right back for wearing makeup for a NEWSWEEK photo shoot. "You look like a bunch of wussies," Kerry said. "I owe John Kerry my life," says the Rev. David Alston, who was a gunner's mate under Kerry. "But John Kerry owes his life to me, too."
Kerry's war record has been endlessly discussed and picked over. Kerry himself never misses an opportunity to cite his combat experience. He has been criticized for his eagerness to win Purple Hearts for superficial wounds others might have shrugged off, and blamed for exaggerating the atrocities of war when he became an antiwar leader after he returned home. Sometimes overlooked is a more essential truth: that while the vast majority of well-off Ivy Leaguers spent the Vietnam War in their dorm rooms, wondering whether their squash injuries would qualify for a draft exemption, Kerry plunged head first into the greatest physical test and moral crisis of his age. |
