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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (500234)	11/28/2003 11:51:01 PM
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John Kerry doesn't like to talk about the day in 1969 when he chased a wounded Vietnamese teenager down a riverbank and shot him dead. It was a life-or-death moment for the prep-schooled son of an American diplomat who had graduated from Yale University two years earlier. "I'm kind of tired of talking about that period of time," the U.S. senator from Massachusetts said in a recent interview. "It was an important period, and very formative. "But there's a lot more. To me that was one period of my life. It's not my life." But had Kerry not jumped off the boat he commanded in the Mekong River delta that day and killed the Vietnamese guerrilla, there would be no Silver Star to give credibility to the seminal moment in his public life, testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee two years later that the war was "a mistake." The characteristic that sustained Kerry most in the Mekong delta - a creative and single-minded ambition that has sometimes been interpreted as a cool personal detachment - served him as an antiwar leader, prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through divorce, political defeat and cancer. It accompanies him now as he campaigns for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. johnkerry.com