I left out Timothy McVeigh, another decorated Vietnam veteran. Mass murderer yes, but coward no.
My point is that a decorated veteran is entitled to respect for what he did during the war (and he cannot be called a coward), but it does not entitle him to commit mass murder, treason, or genocide (McVeigh, Benedict Arnold, and Hitler respectively), nor does Wesley Clark’s Silver Star entitle him to smear a fellow veteran while pandering for Barack Obama.
Timothy McVeigh was not a Viet Nam veteran.