Thanks to Mark for pointing me to this article by John Podhoretz. The more I read about Kerry's past the more I agree with this quote from the article: "Thus was John Kerry a key midwife in the birthing of one of of the worst myths ever fostered in this country: The myth of the crazed, violent, dangerous Vietnam vet who had come back to America to wreak the same kind of devastation here he had wreaked in Southeast Asia. "