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shakran,
i still disagree, but i thought your second response was well-stated and was miles beyond your first. a non-patronizing tip of the cap to you.
technicality: didn't kerry choose to join the navy? i don't remember him ever being drafted.
i don't think that the fact that kerry spoke out against the war is what bothers so many veterans. the kind of grudge so many vietnam veterans hold against kerry is usually reserved for the like of jane fonda. given that, it goes to show how kerry's testimony was not felt by soldiers serving at the time to be in their or their country's best interest.
the only way to account for the 30 years of bitterness against him seems to be that there was a very real sense of betrayal... not simply because he chose to give an account of the war that did not align with the military's line.
a bit more psychology than math involved, but so goes much of political analysis.
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