On Sunday night I sat with two Vietnamese-American gentlemen who spent 13 years each in communist reeducation camps (one a helicopter pilot, the other a tank commander in Pleiku). Also there was the daughter of a Vietnamese professor now serving his second 15-year sentence for advocating freedom of speech in Vietnam (she's married to the tank commander).
We had alliances and treaties with the government of South Vietnam. John Kerry was instrumental in breaking those treaties and turning our backs on these brave men through his lies and traitorous actions. He is despised by the South Vietnamese here in that States and in Vietnam, although most are too polite and deferential to tell you that.
The most damning comment I ever heard from any Vietnamese person was from a former Da Nang air traffic controller - in perfect English from his 2 years training in Texas. "America let us down when we most needed her."
You have no idea of the immense suffering that followed April 1975, engendered in large part by people like John Kerry.
Oh God. That's pretty bad.