As it turned out, most of VVAW, with the exception of John Kerry, were NOT war veterans. They were pretenders and wanna-bes, fabricating their military records.
No you are wrong, while there are a couple of well documented cases where a person or two testfied before congress were not vets, most in fact were returning vets from the military.
The FBI files support that fact. The group however wasn’t as large as some were lead to believe.
What I have read says Lurch was over there for a few weeks with a photographer and a copy of a Hollywood script of JFK's book PT109.
He was building a resume for crying out loud.
He shot an untrained teenager in the back,stubbed his toe, gave himself a medal and flew home to protest against the War with Jane Fonda. He married a A Republican Politician's widow who had inherited zillions and spent the rest of his life telling the world how astute he was as when he picked John Edwards for his Vice President.
Americans had it right when bumper stickers appeared declaring:
“Flush The Johns”.