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...think him going to Vietnam was more heroic than my flying fighter jets. He was in harm's way and I wasn't. On the other hand, I served my country." GEORGE W. BUSH, in an interview where he compared his and Kerry's military service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...close--and how unpredictable--is the 2004 presidential contest? Just a month ago, in the wake of the four-day salute to John Kerry's Vietnam combat record that doubled as the Democratic Convention, political analysts were declaring that given the way undecided voters were leaning, the race was Kerry's to lose. Now he appears to be losing it--or at least that slight edge he had gained. First came the Senator's latest clear-as-mud explanation of his position on the Iraq war; then, more harmfully, came the sabotage by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measure of a Tight Race | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

TIME Is there anything in John Kerry's Vietnam career that you think is relevant to this race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: I've Gained Strength | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...with Vietnam vets, the ability of New Yorkers to process a trauma depends largely on how close people were to the carnage. Researchers have created a matrix called the World Trade Center Exposure Scale to measure this. They've learned that exposure can mean having watched the towers collapse through a window--or on TV, over and over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City: Tales Of The City, Revisited | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

John Kerry can expect to hear a lot more from the Vietnam veterans who have launched an ad campaign attacking his military record. Polls suggest the flap is damaging Kerry's image as a decorated veteran: 77% of registered voters surveyed by TIME say they have seen the ads or heard about them. And while Navy records and eyewitnesses contradict nearly all of the group's claims, 35% (including 25% of swing voters) suspect there's some truth to the charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vets On A Roll | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

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