Reply #34: All I can say is...

[IStriker]

I'm really lucky that my husband has no idea what I was doing back here during Vietnam while he was at sea! I have seen Kerry's testimony a couple of times and the debate he had with O'Neill including when it first happened. I don't blame my husband for taking offense and it's not just him, it's all the career navy friends we have who remember Kerry's testimony and are personally offended and never got over it. Most of them are registered Democrats too, but they lean moderate to conservative. Nothing short of an apology would have made them stop being angry. They are just like the Swift Boat vets in their thinking and a lot of the SBV's are career officers too. They resent that Kerry spent 4 mos. in Vietnam, never got beyond j.g. in rank, and called all of them war criminals. Nearly all of them voted for Bush this time as did their families. I gather they would not have been so angry had Kerry not tried to capitalize on his service. My husband said that he thought some ninny who worked for Kerry posted all the website stuff that made no sense to military people. I get what you said about guilty until proven innocent, but it p.o.'d me that he didn't at least come up with something once the accusations were made instead of ignoring them and hoping they would go away.