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i've considered that very thing smooth. it's difficult to tell how the veteran's perceptions of kerry have faired since 1971. they are all individuals with their own capacity to hold grudges, their own judgement of kerry's record, their own tendency to forgive. but, i don't think that if they did harbor ill feelings toward kerry that they would come out until he tried to run for national office. the veterans that feel so passionately about this issue live in many places other than massachusetts. plus, this is the first time kerry would be running for an office with supreme military command. so much is at stake in a presidential race. couple that with the heated nature of political discourse these days... it's not beyond reason that those factors would be the catalyst to provoke them to action when no other circumstance did that before.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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