The author of this piece is the John O’Neill of the Swift Boat Vets fame.
From the article:
Mr. O’Neill is a Houston attorney who clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist during the Supreme Court’s October 1974 term. He co-authored the New York Times No. 1 bestseller, “Unfit for Command” in 2004. He was Frontpage Magazine’s 2004 Man of the Year.
In my opinion, John Kerry comes close to being a phony solider even though he served in Viet Nam for just a few months.
Will they be adding Senator Harkin to the list of “phony soldiers”???
According to the book “Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History”:
“During a 1992 bid for the presidency, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa claimed that he had served as a pilot in Vietnam…Harkin finally admitted he had not seen combat…When pressed by reporters to explain how much time he really spent in Vietnam Harkin estimated that over a year he flew in and out of Vietnam a dozen or so times. But Harkin’s military record showed no Vietnam service decorations. He finally conceded he had not flown combat air patrols in Vietnam and began describing himself as a Vietnam era vet.”