There are some excellent comments to this article, calling this POS out on his “misstatements”.
The way I look at it the phrase “served during Vietnam” doesn’t even make any sense. (This is the phrase he claims to have mistakenly changed to “served in Vietnam”.)
No one would ever say “served during Vietnam”, you lying POS.
Vietnam is a place. The Vietnam War was a time. You would have said “served during the Vietnam War” if that’s what you meant. But that’s not what you meant. You meant “in” and you said “in”.
And by the way, you lying POS, it turns out you only “served” for 6 months. Which means you barely “served” at all. Kind of like Kerry, with the glaring difference that Kerry actually was in Vietnam.
Kerry served in Vietnam?
And you are correct, those of us who did not serve in country or on the gun line were quite honest (and frankly relieved) when asked.
As an aside, I once met a very humble gent when sitting in First Class on a TWA cross-country flight. We got to talking and he explained that he served “in-country in Vietnam” and when he got back to the states he wanted to be alone and have nothing to do with the world. So he told me that with what money he had he bought a ranch in the desert of Arizona. If I remember correctly he said a little place outside Phoenix called Scottsdale.
Then time passed and the city surrounded his island of peace and finally he sold out to a bunch of property developers for a few Million and that is why I met him flying around in First Class!!