then-Massachusetts Senator John Kerry took the stage and began his acceptance speech with a simple but powerful gesture to highlight his Vietnam War service. “I’m John Kerry,” he told the ...
It animates me still today. It was the feeling of coming home from a war knowing politicians were mouthing words about a conflict that looked completely different from the one they’d sent us to ...
Shrum was a strategist on John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004 when a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, made up of Vietnam War veterans, questioned his military record ...