The Saturday Profile: Gadfly or Hero? Former Pilot Fights On Against Vietnam
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Some old soldiers donÂt even fade away. They keep on fighting, trapped in their own past as the world around them changes, ghosts of a long-dead war.
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Former colleagues and war buddies of retired California National Guard Lt. Col. Harrison Jack say it's hard to believe he's accused of plotting to overthrow the Laotian government. Some, however, are re-examining an e-mail for signs that he had never fully let go of his experience in the Southeast Asian jungle decades ago.
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Both Oregon men were Marines who fought in Vietnam. Both are divorced, single -- and struggle three decades later to put the war behind them.
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John Kerry offers his service in Vietnam as proof that he can keep America safe. But in two TV ads and a best-selling book, an anti-Kerry group has accused the Senator of dishonesty and cowardice during the war.
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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an organization that says it has more than 300 members, created controversy three weeks ago with a TV ad charging that Sen. John Kerry has lied about his military record. The group begins airing a second ad Tuesday in three states. The new ad, called "Sellout," mixes photos and audio from an appearance Kerry, then 27, made before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971, with comments from Vietnam War veterans who object to the anti-war efforts Kerry made following his return from service in Vietnam.
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He was in the firefights of Fallujah. He saw gaps in America's arsenal that he believes can only be filled when America's elite puts its sons on the battlefield. A plea for selective service.
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Two groups of Vietnam veterans opposed to Sen. John Kerry once again have joined forces to run television ads against the Democratic presidential candidate.
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You'd think the details would be scorched into a veteran's memory like a cattle brand: ducking gunfire, seeing someone die in battle, bracing against a blast's concussion. Who could forget?
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As South Boston remembered 25 neighborhood heroes killed in the Vietnam War, local veterans yesterday weighed in on the ongoing war record battle between John Kerry [related, bio] and President George W. Bush.
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A commander of a Navy boat alongside John Kerry in Vietnam broke a 35-year silence and defended the Democratic presidential nominee&#39;s war record against attacks by other veterans.
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WASHINGTON - A Vietnam veteran who claims Sen. John Kerry lied about being under fire during a Mekong Delta engagement that won Kerry a Bronze Star was under constant fire himself during the same skirmish, according to the man's own medal citation, a newspaper reported...
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New TV ads and accusations draw out debate over Kerry&#39;s service in Vietnam - and may be an acid test of his defenses. By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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A close-up chronicle of the most sustained period of street-to-street fighting that Americans have encountered since the Vietnam War.
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The question raised by &quot;Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry&quot; isn&#39;t if it&#39;s an unbiased account of presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry&#39;s service during the Vietnam War.
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"Tree of Smoke" (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 624 pages. $27.00), by Denis Johnson: Who needs another book about the Vietnam War this late in the game, with so many other national scars to pick at since then?
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The first U.S. passenger flight to  Vietnam since 1975 shows bilateral ties are "right on track"  between old battlefield foes who still spar over human rights  and trade, a Vietnamese spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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The battle of claims and counter-claims over Sen. John Kerry&#39;s service in Vietnam and his later anti-war activism remains at a brisk boil.