Old Friend is wrong because I do grasp the importance of this election.
I simply believe that a soldier's dedication to Country could survive a Kerry.
I am not questioning the dedication of any individual soldier, but I am questioning the potential effectiveness of any fighting force that is told by its top commander that the war in which it is engaged is at the wrong place, wrong time.
The current crop of recruits weren't even born when Kerry testified before the Senate in 1971, but many of their senior commanders are Vietnam veterans and they remember. They remember all too well.