[stoney]

I was a gunner on PBR 287 and saw heavy action. I question the severity of anyone who got 3 PH's in 4 months. Most guys had enough dignity to refuse PH's for anything less than a serious wound. But then 'dignity' always seems to be in short supply when you're talking dem politicos.

[Interesting Times]

I'm starting to wonder if Kerry and his powerful Kennedy associates didn't have his tour and medals pretty much scripted before he ever went to Vietnam. They needed a clean-cut, upper class officer with heroic combat experience to front their disinformation campaign. Kerry was a perfect fit for the part, and was hungering for a political career.

[Travis McGee]

Stoney, I was a non-combat SEAL from the early 80s, but all of my instructors at BUD/S and all of the E-6s and up from those days were VN era SEALs. Man, they thought you guys were the bravest of the brave. They said you would pull your boats straight into massed gunfire to pull SEALs out, NO MATTER WHAT. They really loved you guys. They really did.