Still, you have to wonder about a guy who had political ambitions from his earliest days and somehow figured to get his ticket punched in Vietnam quickly, to get in and get out, with his resume suitably enhanced, while limiting the risks to himself by getting it over with, so to speak.
Sure he chose a bold course and demonstrated bravery over there, even while recklessly charging ashore with his men against standing orders from his superiors. But what else was going through Kerry’s mind back then? John Fitzgerald Kennedy famously benefited from his war-hero status on a P.T. boat in World War II. Why shouldn’t John Forbes Kerry do so as well?
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