It's quite obvious that the "word" has gone out that everybody needs to ackowledge Kerry is a "war hero", but.....
I'm not sure of the reasoning. Maybe it's because the Reps just don't want to turn Kerry into a victim. I don't know.
Personally, I think Kerry and other vietnam protesters have blood on their hands, and I'm waiting on someone to produce a video about the years 1973 to 1975, where we got what we wanted from No. Vietnam in 1973. But by 1975 the Kerrys of the world gave So. Vietnam away and left millions of people in So. East asia dead as a result.
The anti-war movement was almost as deadly for So. East Asians as Hitler was to Jews. And that's a fact.
They may not have done the killing, but they enabled it, and covered it up by ignoring it.