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Show Page 12—THE HERALD,Provo, Utah Wednesday, December 15, 1971 Dissenting Hero of Vietnam WarProves To Be Cool, Angry Young Man By MURRAY OLDERMAN SAN FANCISCO — (NEA) — John Kerry had to make a decision. The three gunboats snailing up the narrow rib- bon of river in Vietnam were weighted downwith 30 troops each. Creeping along at 10 knots an hour. The shores were thick with mangrove Ambush country. And then from the dense brush, the telltale puffy of smoke, the spatter of bullets Naval Lieutenant Kerry the tactical officer for the mission, quickly decided. He ordered the boats turned sharply right and beached With him leading the way, they jumped ashore and through the mangrove, in the face of fire, and quickly overran and captured the Viet Cong For t ceived a position John Kerry re Silver Star—to go in the same drawer with the Bronze Star and the three Purple Hearts he also re. ceived in the course of valor ous action in Vietnam That was barely more than two years ago. Now wesee John Kerry upto-date, in a sedate dark qualified Kerry to come and betrayal Kerry says he was like home, although he was ofhundreds of thousands of fered a jot as aa admirals others when he first went aide to stay. “I decided,” he into the service, from col- says, “tc return ami tell the lege. “I never stopped to people the real story. Mysisask questions,” he notes. “It was 1965 and the first draft cards hadn't been burned. | felt the President of the United States was to be trusted, and McNamara and Bundy and the whiz kids around thein were dealing us ter Peggy was very much in- volved in the antiwar movement then. Two weeks after I was back, I made a speech before the Rotary Club in Groton, Massachusetts, where my father lived, and I really let taem have it. miral requesting permission to resign Congress.”” and run for also talked himself onto the Dick Cavett Show, cold, and press and | felt something got national attention in Jan. Helost the primaryin the Third Congressional district of Massachusetts, but in April of 1970 he became involved with ‘he Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He uary, 1971, he was one of 150 veterans meeting in Detroit for the Winter Soldier Inves. tigation It crystallized my views,” he says, “but we got no more dramatic was needed “The New Soldier,” by John Kerry and the Vietnam Vets I suggested Washingtou.” in late April a set up camp has also’ grown the role of Kerry as th> symbol of the a march on For five days thousand men near ‘he Lin- (Macmillan). dissenters. coln Memorial. From their @ radical. The war is stil) going on and it’s so wrong. I'mvery angry But it comes out as cool rational indignation which compels people to listen to JohnKerry. And io leave the I'm politicized,” he says, experience has come photo- graphic essay in book form, And from it and therefore mistrusted I'mradicalized, but I'm not feeling he'll be heard from again. But I was fighting pressure. I knew there’d be ostracism He served three anoa half and censorship. I was still in years, climaxed by a five- the navy as an admiral’s months tour as a gunboat aide in NewYork. Whatrealskipper running the narrow, ly triggered me was that a dangerous rivers of the friend of mine waskilled in Vietnam. Naval Lt. Don Droz Mekong Delta I have a feeling of re- was blown up. He was an Annapolis grad and left a morse,” he says, “not guilt We took great pains not to family shoot innocent people. We'd “So I got involved in Morashoot h huts, and torium. I have a private that r he re zl en nd flew one of the speakers around the me. New Yorkarea. Next day, I His third Purple Heart drafted a letter to the adYee : a straight line DECOYS © MILLER LITTLE GIANT REG. 16.95. © DURADUCK REG, 29.95. . © ITALIAN PAINTED REG, 39.95 495 SF | POWDER STAND 5 9% 17* i” RUGER SINGLE SIX WITH MAG. CYLINDER graysuit with a conservative blue tie and wing-tipped black shoes, He calls it his “communicationssuit.” He's ‘on his way to a cocktail party on The Peninsula, that strip of executive suburbia south of San Francisco. scaleforon the the lentlingscale -time reloader, features ic Reg. 17.95 Fmt 19% long life and accuracy, freedom from incorrect NOW readings through parallax erro:, easy to read beam graduations Scoop. Maybe you've seen him, too—a juvenescent |, agate bearings fer Muskie type with a long jaw and a New Englandbroad “a” who was engaged in nationaltelevision deba' with such Republican types as Herbert Klein and William Buckley and yielded nothing in articulateness. “Looking back,” he says, “I’m embarrassed by the fact I was over there shooting. One can’t look back without feeling I was shooting without justification, morally. And yet I had no compunctions then. It was a life-and-death situation. But in retrospect it all seems absurd.” Kerry is a bona fide war hero who,after the Vietnam experience, turned antiestablishment (“I've gotten used to not wearing a tie”). Yet, by background, he is staid America. Heis 27, He wentto the proper prep school. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale. His father is a lawyer who +’as once with the consular division of the State Department, and so John lived several years in Europe. He is a registered Democrat. At 17, he wasalready campaigning for John F. Kennedy, at St. Paul’s School. He speaks eloquently, and well. His future, he admits, is politics — when he gets over his current commitmentas a spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. John Kerry had to make another decision when he reae a war hero—to speak out. In a statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Commitiee in April of this year, Kerry said, “The coun- try doesn’t realize it yet but it has created a monster in the fom of thousands of men who have been taughtto deal and to trade in violence and whoare given the chaace to die for the biggest nothing in history—men who have returned with a sense of anger LACHMILLER RIFLE DIES ‘lode ofspecial steel to meetourstrict specifications. All dies individually checked with precision dial gauges that measure to within BONA FIDE WAR HERO, antiwar spokesman John Kerry wears ribbons for the Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts he earned in Vietnam. If Medical Advice Fails Don’t Sue, Scribe Pleads is you are having too manyof. 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