I have spoken to many Viet vets who have said what they saw or experienced or did made them sick. Some have expanded on it, some can't bring themselves to talk about it in depth. Calley wasn't an exception nor was he the rule.
The events show our efforts were correct? Explain. We didn't beat back communism in that area. It still flourishes. Maybe there are normalized relationships with many of those countries, but they are far from being freedom loving, capitalistic republics.
And yes it is the truth that matters. I'm no Kerry kool-aid drinker, os obviously you've missed some truths too. But I also don't believe this President is God's hand picked choice for leadership at this moment. He's the (much) better of the two terribly imperfect but viable candidates we have at this moment. Seems the President has been looking for truth too as in for the past 16 months we understood the resistance we'd encounter vs this past weeks admisssion we underestimated that resistance.
As I said, even if Kerry's testimony was spot on, at this point in history, the Swifty's probably would have been there in the same capacity as we've seen.
There are a lot of people on here that cannot read what you posted! Amazing!
I remember the late 60's and the demonstrations well -- I went to work for the AF and never regretted that for one moment. When our POW's came back to the Wright-Patt Medical Center I got even madder at the Antioch goon squad of demonstrators that appeared around the base all the time. Our military were not to wear their uniforms off the base for fear of reprisal by the lowlifes.
Still don't understand why parents continued to pay their children's college education when they didn't go to class and preferred to be out demonstrating. My Dad, who was in WWII, wouldn't have put up with that for one minute but then I grew up in a conservative, proud to be an American household for which I am grateful!
Thanks for posting this from someone who has seen the light.