[Travis McGee]

One of the worst whores I've ever seen.

When it suited him, he was trashing "Amerika" and palling around with Hanoi Jane, while POWs were being tortured.

Now he brags about "I'm a combat veteran" in every other sentence.

If he was so ashamed of VietNam then, why's he brag about it nonstop now?

Then there is his habit of marrying lonely millionairesses....just a gigolo.

[onyx]

Thank you for that, Travis. We must continue to remind voters that he was delighted to pal around with Hanoi Jane while POW's were being tortured.

Damn him. He's a disgrace and he's dangerous.

[river rat]

One must be careful when discussing the merits of PHs and the difference between bravery and exercising good sense...
I have never met any group of men any braver that those men that fought from PBRs.
One Navy enlisted PBR crew member, remains a close friend to this day..
The VC and NVA feared and hated them, and would go to great lengths to attempt to kill them by any means..

I don't begrudge any man - wounded three times, wishing to invoke the "Return to the World" clause..
I had never heard of that "clause"....and a lot of men would still be alive if they had known and invoked the clause..

It's the definition of a Purple Heart level "wound" that requires some scrutiny...
That definition varied a great deal, between branches and even units within the same branch..

Our Gunny defined a "wound" - as one that required more attention than could be properly provided by our Corpsman..
In other words, in HIS mind - you were not wounded unless you had to be conveyed to Field Hospital or choppered out to the fleet hospital or beyond.
Anything less than that was considered a "wake up call" and you were lucky...

Kerry just doesn't pass the smell test..
For one so proud of his service - yet opposed to our being there - and then working against those warriors STILL there --- just doesn't calculate..
It seems Kerry was getting his Political Card Punched - in Vietnam - and left as soon as he has the necessary "punches".. Just as many Officers in some branches..did the same.


Semper Fi