re: #283 Dark_Falcon

That Kerry had slandered America’s military following his return from Vietnam.

What did Kerry say that was slanderous?

What weren’t true were O’Neill’s claims that Kerry had been a coward and a failure while he was in the Navy; That part was a lie. Why O’Neill told that lie is not a question I can answer.

That was the main thing, though. The main thing was the charge of cowardice and sham medals, which led to the disgusting, unforgivable trivialization of the purple heart by the GOP. And it’s rather clear that the reason for the lie was to sell books, make money, and smear a candidate whose ideals he hated.

Do you feel any level of shame about the purple heart thing, about how your party embraced mocking a military decoration?