A friend of ours was upset. A parent is going to vote for Trump

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3. Yes, and Kerry volunteered for the most dangerous job in the Navy while GWB's

father used his influence to get him into a champagne unit of the Texas Air National Guard that had almost no chance of seeing combat, and then GWB went AWOL, or somehow managed to get out of it.

Kerry volunteered for swift boats which were small boats that went up and down the rivers of S. Vietnam, and the sailors went into the bush too. Possibly naval aviator was more dangerous as far as Navy jobs, but that's the only one that was close.

Anyway, your father wasn't the only vet that was insulted by Kerry's service being smeared as easy and trivial and even cowardly somehow (and with the bandaids making fun of his injuries and all that), while GWB was considered to have served his country honorably if not with great distinction. And people really believed that narrative (including my sister I think).

he'd already complained about the Smear Boat campaign. As a vet, he found it distasteful.