US war veterans tossing medals back at Nato was a heroic act

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2. I remember when Kerry threw his ribbons on the Capitol steps

I watched the news at the Army hospital in San Francisco, where I was being treated for my war wounds, and something just boiled up in me.

I'd been a true believer, volunteering for the draft, for Army Infantry, for OCS, for Vietnam, and for combat assignment.

But by that time, after VN combat and living for more than a year on the hospital floor that had all the facial casualties and all the amputees, and watching the never-ending flow of new casualties into our hospital and onto our floor, my views and my feelings had changed in ways I wasn't even consciously aware of.

When I saw the news about Kerry's protest, this true believer couldn't help exclaiming, "Yeah!" And in that moment I wished so much that I could have been with Kerry then, throwing my ribbons, too, at rhe Capitol...