Buff,
Some good points there mano
I will call Kerry somewhat of a hero in my eyes, not just because he got a silver star, a Bronze star for valor and 3 purple hearts, but because on 2 occasions under fire he turned around his boat and rescued soldiers that alot of troops might have left for dead. He didn't just get scratches, I think he got shot 3-4 times in like a 4-5 month period or something like that.
Got out of yale, from a rich family and joined up, didn't get drafted, gotta give him kudos on that.
He did come back and protest the war very strongley, but if anybody has the right to do that, which we all do, he sure does being a vet on the front lines (river/ bay) and taking bullets for our country..
All that aside I knew that I loved and respected John Kerry very much when a few years ago, he did the 1 year pow mia hearings in the Senate. I watched it almost every night on c-span. He, and ranking member Sen. Smith from NH (x-senator) did a great job, and I will always cheer Kerry for that, especially when most pentagon people wanted the pow / vietnam thing to just finally die..