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...Democrats simply did not understand that. They lost big. In 2002, past heroism was not enough. In 2004, it might just be. Why? Because Sept. 11 is fading...
...Bush team lampooned Dukakis in a now famous ad in which he drove a tank while wearing an outsize military helmet. This time Republicans will take pains to honor Kerry's Vietnam heroism but will single out the times he voted to cut or freeze defense-and-intelligence spending--while conveniently ignoring the instances in which he voted to increase both. "Howard Dean has said that America's military will not always be the world's strongest. Senator Kerry's voting record would make Governor Dean's vision a reality," says Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman. But the Bush...
...David Maysles, I can be seen joshing with Ringo Starr at a cocktail reception over whether Beatlemania was "all just a con." This bit of footage, authenticating that I had once basked in the presence of a Beatle, would in later years endow me with a measure of heroism in the eyes of my three children...
Ultimately, that's where you discover the heroism of the 120,000 soldiers serving in Iraq today--not so much in their battlefield bravery or the firmness of their resolve as in their acceptance of uncertainty and the courage of their restraint. Buxton, the veteran of the first Gulf War, sits on his cot inside the Tomb Raiders' hooch. As he struggles to express his thoughts, it becomes clear that the eloquence lies in his frustration. "There is nobody to shoot back at. That's every soldier's biggest complaint," he says. "But we are not cold-blooded killers...
...hope the American people won’t use this false portrayal of American heroism as a show of the United States’ justification for going into Iraq,” Schwartz said...