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I didn't care for his politics but I respect his heroism as a POW.
He didn't plan the Vietnam war, Rolling Thunder or the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. He was a soldier who fought in a war he didn't create (and which I protested at the time). I disagreed with him about 99% on his positions as a legislator and presidential candidate, but I'm not going to do a Trump and piss on his grave for what he did during the war.