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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
"So Kerry's main defender can't really know much about the specifics because he was only there for a few days. Why don't they put someone forward who can?"
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Meanwhile, on the Infirm boards, the party line is that the word "hero" is overused and basically meaningless since the orgiastic Patriotism Party of 2001, after which we applied it to people who did nothing more than die and/or jump out of burning buildings. Even if it ever meant something (the line goes), real heroism is in volunteering for the possibility of danger, so really 43 is just as heroic as Kerry, because flying jets around Texas is very dangerous, and Kerry can't exactly claim to be the John Rambo of Vietnam, never having single-handedly rescued dozens of POWs or getting misted with the atomized remains of dead Charlie.
