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August 25, 2004
Ouch!
Mackubin Thomas Owens, a professor of strategy and force planning at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., also led a Marine infantry platoon in Vietnam in 1968-1969. He cuts to the chase in his article, "John Kerry's Two Vietnams."
"As a correspondent pointed out to me in an e-mail, each episode of the HBO series Band of Brothers, begins with a voiceover in which the narrator says of the World War II soldiers portrayed in the program: "I was not a hero, but I was surrounded by heroes." In contrast, what John Kerry is saying in essence about his "band of brothers" is that "in Vietnam, I was a hero, but I was surrounded by war criminals."
Posted by Mike Lief at August 25, 2004 08:55 AM
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