Bruce Springsteen's signature song, Born in the USA, highlights the raw deal Vietnam veterans got when they returned home. How ironic he now campaigns for the man largely responsible for that chilly reception. Those returning vets where spat upon because of John Kerry and people like him.
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"They told stories that, at times, they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam,in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."
- John Kerry, testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee,Washington, D.C., April 22, 1971
Though claims of wide spread atrocities have been largely discredited John Kerry has never apologized for his over the top testimony.
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