“I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared — seared — in me.”
——John Kerry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27211-2004Aug23.html
Is that when Kerry went AWOL and took his boat to Saigon without authorization?
He admits to this in his own words.
Long ago I had an instructor who claimed that Shakespeare was so good,in part, because of his deep understanding of human nature.
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
“And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks”
The Master knew!