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   From: x@y.com   
      
   On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:16:45 -0500, in talk.politics.guns Zinger   
    wrote:   
      
   >Why weren't you in country Sonny. Bless your Brother and may he   
   >always have a good tail wind.   
      
   I didn't say one way or the other about being "in country".  If I did,   
   then doing so would have been called an "appeal to authority".   
      
   If you drove a pig in 'Nam, then you're likely an Aussie.  I know we   
   technically had them; however, they were mostly an Oz show... seems   
   like the Aussies had a squadron of them based at Vung Tau or Nui Dat.   
      
   My point, however, was that Kerry's medals were all legally awarded by   
   the Navy.  Now, whether or not you think they should have been isn't   
   important to me.  I wasn't with him and, I suspect, neither were you.   
   (Further, I strongly suspect that neither were the "Swift Boat   
   Veterans".)   
      
   I don't like Kerry's politics.  If he's going to make a big public   
   show of throwing his medals over the fence, then he should leave 'em   
   there.  *If* I were a veteran of the Vietnam war, I would never   
   advertise it.  My hero is Tim O'Brian.   
      
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