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July 26, 2004
Kerry | Kerry's War Letters

The Boston Globe has an interesting view on Kerry’s Vietnam-era letters home:

The glimpses into Kerry’s thinking provide at least a partial portrait of a young man wrestling with matters of war, duty, and sacrifice, and slowly changing his mind — an aspect of Kerry that would be part of his Senate career and that would become fodder in the presidential race for Republican critics who accuse him of not adhering to positions and principles.

“I too have no regard whatsoever for this war but I do see that as a member of the armed service and as a responsible person I have an obligation to take on the most interesting and challenging thing there is,” Kerry wrote to Thorne in September 1968.

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Posted by Alan at July 26, 2004 08:08 AM | TrackBack
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