War and Remembrance

If you haven't been in the war, it is sometimes said, you have no business passing judgment on the warriors. So how do other Vietnam veterans feel about what Kerrey confessed last week?

Senator John McCain
Republican of Arizona
It is hard for people who have never seen combat to understand. Even for someone like me it's hard, because the kind of war I was involved in was antiseptic. I was in an airplaneyou drop bombs, you see smoke, and you leave. It's different from being on the ground in the middle of the night...

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