The Swiftees are exposing Kerry as a shameless opportunist. Quick — name another Vietnam vet who hauled around a Super-8 movie camera in order to re-enact his exploits on film. Quick — name another Vietnam vet with the audacity to request a Purple Heart for a “wound” that was treated with tweezers and patched with a Band-Aid. The sheer number of his fellow swift boat officers who challenge Kerry’s record, and the detail and mutual corroboration in their remembrances, paint a picture that is both credible and devastating.

That Purple Heart and the fact that he wrote up his own paperwork to suggest that he receive it, is a slap in the face to any Vet who has received that honor, and cheapens and minimizes it for any man who has ever received one–Like REAL heroes that are no longer with us.

To wit: Audie Murphy.

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