It’s equally important to note that, after partially recovering from a serious wound, he returned to his men in Vietnam. Imagine that for a democrat. Serious wound, goes back to the fight. Didn’t someone who “served in Vietnam,” also a democrat, “suffer” three fabricated band-aid scratches and knock people down in his haste to bail on his men in Vietnam.
Webb would still be a Republican today if the populist and noninterventionist wing hadn’t been demonized and driven out during the 1990s.
It's not about parties, I'd like to think it's still that way. Lewis Puller, Chesty's son, ran for Congress as a Dem too, missing both legs and most of both hands. He lost.