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...haven't been in the war, it is sometimes said, you have no business passing judgment on the warriors. So how do other Vietnam veterans feel about what Kerrey confessed last week...
...thing with Kerrey is whether there was incoming fire. Was there or not? That's a Rashomon story. The only mitigating factor is that all villagers were suspect in war zones. We were fighting an enemy army, but we were also fighting villagers. These things don't take place in slow motion. I know Kerrey, and I think he's an upstanding citizen. It would be hard for me to accept that he cold-bloodedly killed villagers. He was a lieutenant on one of his first combat missions. There could have been an element of panic. If it went...
...Senator Chuck Hagel Republican of Nebraska My brother and I were in the 9th Infantry Division. We had responsibility for the Mekong Delta, so I'm familiar with the general area where Kerrey's incident occurred. Our mission was to search and destroy, kill the enemy, run ambush patrols. I don't ever really replay (killings) at all. I learned a long time ago that that's a torture I don't wish to put myself through. (But) you can't help having certain recollections when something like (Kerrey's story) comes to light. What you do is you start...
...Barry Romo National Coordinator, Vietnam Veterans Against the War Everything is backwards. People shouldn't be looking at Kerrey as a victim but at the families of the Vietnamese who were killed. If Kerrey killed them by accident, and knew it, then he owed them some reparation. If he did line them up and shoot them, then you don't get away with murder because you wear a uniform...
When the Navy SEAL squad known as Kerrey's Raiders went into Thanh Phong in 1969, the men were dropped off by speedboat and crept in by cover of night. Today visitors to the remote coastal village come by daylight, by road and ferry, past lush coconut groves and over the countless fingers of the Mekong River as it branches across the delta. Of late, those traveling the one-lane clay road to Thanh Phong?now home to about 380 families who fish and grow rice?include foreign journalists trying to corroborate an atrocity and Vietnamese government officials accompanying them...