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"I would li,ke to know about the group of Vietnam Vets who are supporting Kerry ...How many really knew him ? what is their motivation?"

I have thought the same thing. How are they being compensated? I suspect he has done "political" favors for them over the years. I would really like to throughly investigate all of their backgrounds. I bet most are less than savory.

"I would li,ke to know about the group of Vietnam Vets who are supporting Kerry ...How many really knew him ? what is their motivation?"

Some info here:
1. If most of Kerry's fellow Swift veterans don't support him, then who were all those guys with him at the Democratic Convention? They made it appear that Kerry has the complete support of his "Band of Brothers" from Vietnam.

John Kerry has been able to convince about 13 men who served on Swift boats in the Mekong Delta to support him, 7 or 8 of whom were at various times crew members on his own 6-man boat. Those are the men the Kerry campaign so prominently featured at the Democratic Convention. The photograph we have posted at SwiftVets.com shows Kerry with 19 of his fellow Swift boat OICs (Officers In Charge) in Coastal Division 11. Four OICs were not present for the photograph. Only one of his 23 fellow OICs from Coastal Division 11 supports John Kerry.

Overall, more than 250 Swift boat veterans are on the record questioning Kerry's fitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief. That list includes his entire chain of command -- every single officer Kerry served under in Vietnam. The Kerry game plan is to ignore all this and pretend that the 13 veterans his campaign jets around the country and puts up in 5-star hotels really represent the truth about his short, controversial combat tour.

The Swift boats fought in groups, so the other OICs who fought alongside Kerry know him well and can accurately describe what he did and did not do. In many cases Kerry's fellow OICs had a better perspective than his own crew members, since the latter had no way to determine whether he was following orders and how well he worked with his peers.

http://www.swiftvets.com/index.php?topic=FAQ

A retired Navy buddy points out that there's a difference between Kerrys subordinates who were under his command (the so-called "Band of Brothers"), and his peers who "served with him". Living and working together on the PCF formed a bond, reinforced by the command structure - for good or ill, Kerry was their leader and boss of the boat. But to his peers, he was a show-off, rule-breaking maverick and self-serving liar who did not warrant their respect.

I think the nature of their relationship explains the motivation of the "Brothers".

"I would li,ke to know about the group of Vietnam Vets who are supporting Kerry ...How many really knew him ? what is their motivation?"

I don't fault the guy he pulled out of the river. But I wonder also about the others. And the flag and general officers too - Gen Merrill McPeak, USAF is inexplicable to me. At least Adm Crowe was a Clinton/Gore supporter through two elections.