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I think I have figured out what your saying. You believed we still had a chance of winning the war.

You are not really getting it. And no disrespect to your father, but his viewpoint about Vietnam was misguided. For the U.S. not being a jungle-familiar army we never lost a battle or the war militarily. In fact, We had it won militarily. We lost it politically. At home. And who was responsible for that? Let's see what the enemy said:

Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004 10:25 p.m. EST

Gen. Giap: Kerry's Group Helped Hanoi Defeat U.S.
Carl Limbacher, Newsmax.com

The North Vietnamese general in charge of the military campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South Vietnam in 1975 credited a group led by Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry with helping him achieve victory.

In his 1985 memoir about the war, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S. - according to Fox News Channel war historian Oliver North.

That's why, he predicted on Tuesday, the Vietnam War issue "is going to blow up in Kerry's face."

"People are going to remember Gen. Giap saying if it weren't for these guys [Kerry's group], we would have lost," North told radio host Sean Hannity.

"The Vietnam Veterans Against the War encouraged people to desert, encouraged people to mutiny - some used what they wrote to justify fragging officers," noted the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who earned two purple hearts in Vietnam.

"John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands," North said.

Which gets us back to my earlier use of language. Murderous. Kerry undeniably was. All for self-ambition...and ideology.

You show a further historical weakness: Your failure to recognize, at minimum, the possibility as borne out by a lifetime of actions damaging to the U.S. defense that Kerry was either: (a) a Useful Idiot, (b) Fellow Traveller, or (c) True Believer, dedicated traitor to the U.S. in the hardcore Soviet Conspiracy. Do you honestly think he was none of the above? Have you never read Whittaker Chamber's "Witness"?