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You may have heard that Jane Fonda apologized to Vietnam veterans in her current book. That's incorrect. She expressed "regret" for one photograph, but remains proud of her Radio Hanoi broadcasts, her efforts to achieve a Communist victory, and her attacks on American servicemen as war criminals. She never uses the word "apology." Fonda's latest foray into her past -- with her pseudo-apology for having been photographed while sitting on a Communist North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, along with her continued vigorous defense of all other aspects of her trip to North Vietnam and her support for the North Vietnamese and...

Wounds That Never Heal The wounds Kerry inflicted continue to pain Vietnam veterans. By Dexter Lehtinen American soldiers "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, cut off limbs, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan...." — John Kerry, 1971 In 1971, I awoke from three days of unconsciousness aboard a hospital ship off the coast of Vietnam. I could not see, my jaws were wired shut, and my left cheekbone was missing, a gaping hole in its place. Later, while still in that condition at St. Albans Naval Hospital, one of my earliest recollections...

As a warning to young servicemen, a former Army Ranger in Vietnam and Florida state senator purchased full-page ads in military newspapers recounting how he learned of John Kerry's 1971 accusations of war crimes as he lay severely wounded in a hospital. Dexter Lehtinen, a Miami attorney, told WorldNetDaily the ads are entirely his own, though he consulted with his wife, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., and grown children before pouring more than $50,000 of the family's money into spots in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines Times last week. He also bought full pages in the Capitol Hill newspaper...

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WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Dexter Lehtinen, well-known Miami lawyer and former U.S. attorney, has become one of the most prominent Vietnam veterans in a vociferous campaign against Sen. John Kerry. Lehtinen, who plans to speak at an anti-Kerry rally here Sunday, separates himself from a group of swift boat veterans who attacked the Democratic nominee's war record. "What happened in combat is disputed," Lehtinen said. "What John Kerry said and did later is beyond dispute - that our Army was reminiscent of Genghis Khan's, that officers like me routinely let their men plunder villages and rape villagers." Lehtinen, an Army...