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To: stockman_scott who wrote (38328)	2/23/2004 11:10:52 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Viet vets hate hypocrite Kerry MacAuliffe/Kerry's war record hypocrisy is backfiring on them. Ex-guardsmen say jab at Bush tars them By By Bryan Bender Globe Staff, 2/23/2004 WASHINGTON -- Stephen Eckhardt was in the National Guard in 1968 when he was sent to Vietnam to run supplies into sniper-filled combat zones. Now he believes that service is being unfairly maligned. Attacks by Democratic Party leaders on President Bush for his Vietnam-era service in the Air National Guard and questions of whether he fulfilled his requirements have angered former Guard members, like Eckhardt, who say some of the political jabs imply that anyone who served in the Guard was trying to avoid combat. "I wanted to spit glass," Eckhardt said last week in an interview from his office in Miami, where he is a corporate executive recruiter. "It makes me feel my service was less than honorable and that I was just a draft dodger. I really got upset because I felt, for political purposes, a lot of people who joined the National Guard and fulfilled their duties were being portrayed as a bunch of privileged folks who got in to avoid service."