[gaspar]

The thing I can't figure about all this is that when I was in the Delta in parts of late 1969-1970 there were damned few US military around. Sure there were Seals and river patrolling in Ba Xuyen and Sa Dec, and guys running around the Ca Mau Peninsula, but it wasn't at all like I or II Corps where jarheads and grunts were literally everywhere.
I would submit that If Kerry learned anything about what was happening in Viet Nam where most of the fighting was taking place it must have been anecdotal. Thus, his tarring of all military with a broad brush was in fact the exposition of his own "progressive" political ideology. It is, by the way, an ideology he still holds dear.

[jla]

fyi

[kellynla]

Gaspar, I haven't followed the history of Kerry but my hunch is that when he appeared before Congress in '71 all he did was repeat a lot of lies from other people of which we now know some were never in the service and some may have been in the service but were never in Nam. Bottom line, Kerry was telling a lot of "war stories" and we all know about those "war stories"...the guys with the most "war stories" never saw combat. Most guys who were in combat spent years trying to put it behind them not spending years reliving them. There has to be a very good reason why Kerry won't release his medical records from the Navy. And I am betting dollars to donuts the reason is that those 3 PH's are "paper cuts" that he should have never received the Purple Heart for.