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Kerry came back upset with what he'd been sent to do.

That's not terribly different from a lot of guys in a lot of wars. His next step in life was to do what he could do, and that turned out to be the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War.

I consider that to have been an error but maybe not as big an error as others here who neither served nor ever knew anyone who served might think.

As far as tossing your medals back at Congress, I found myself do that with the paltry few awards I had that Congress had told me I had to have ~ the event, however, was when Jimmy Carter pardoned the draft dodgers. I waited a few weeks and when congress had not yet Impeached and Convicted him, I sent the stuff back to my local Congressman. Lots of other guys did too. John Kerry should have taken that occasion to finally toss his medals back to the scumbuckets in Congress who had so totally shamed our nation and wasted so many of our friends.

I see your point. Still, the medal-tossing episode comes across as a negative in a lot of quarters but maybe not in any that would have considered voted for Kerry in the first place. I don't think it plays well w/ WWII vets but, sadly, they are a shrinking sector of the electorate.

"Kerry came back upset with what he'd been sent to do.
That's not terribly different from a lot of guys in a lot of wars. His next step in life was to do what he could do, and that turned out to be the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War."

Most accounts say Kerry had no problems with the war when he first came back. He intended to run for Congress as a war hero. When it became clear to him that wouldn't fly, he became an anti-war hero.

"John Kerry should have taken that occasion to finally toss his medals back to the scumbuckets in Congress who had so totally shamed our nation and wasted so many of our friends."

Kerry didn't throw HIS medals onto the Capitol steps. He threw SOMEONE else's and claimed they were his.

His are now on the wall of his Senate office, so that he can remind people of what a hero he was for four months 33 years ago.