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Fedora: Can you help to explain the relationship between Kerry and Tod Ensign? Tod's Citizen-Soldier.org is providing the legal aid and I understand that he and Kerry go back to their good old days. It seems strange that Kerry's PAC is called "Citizen Solder Fund". I do not know of any specific links between the two, other than Kerry's relationship with Ensign.

Ensign led the group that started what became the VVAW's Winter Soldier Investigation. Ensign's group was called the Citizens’ Commission of Inquiry into War Crimes in Indochina (CCI) and was inspired by European Communist groups promoting the idea of holding a "war crimes investigation" of US troops in Vietnam. The CCI was headquartered across the street from the VVAW in New York and its leaders knew some VVAW leaders, so they invited the VVAW to join its war crimes inquiry. For a time in 1970 the CCI and VVAW investigations were formally joined, but after a dispute over Jane Fonda's associate Mark Lane the CCI split off to form a separate, parallel investigation called the National Veterans’ Inquiry, while the VVAW conducted the Winter Soldier Investigation. Despite the formal split the CCI and VVAW continued to have periodic contact at events such as Dewey Canyon III. More details in Part 3 of my series on Kerry:

Hanoi John: Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist Connections

Scroll down to the section titled "Operation RAW and The Winter Soldier Investigation". There's also a bit in the section on Dewey Canyon III:

Joining the activities would be other antiwar veterans groups, including a group of active-duty GIs supported by the CCI and Mark Lane, the Concerned Officers Movement (COM), who had been working out of the office of Congressman Ron Dellums and were scheduled to hold ad hoc war crimes hearings before members of Congress at the same time the VVAW would be demonstrating.