That This Could be the Final Word

A moving, yet cogent essay by Karen Spears Zacharias in this morning's New York Times, should - if the world were fair - be the final word in the Swift Boat Veterans' treachery.

Amid the confusing debate over John Kerry's Vietnam record, one thing is clear: war - particularly the trauma of war - corrodes memory.

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So, then, what about John Kerry and the Swift boat crew? Enough already. There are some things we'll never know. But there are also some things that are beyond dispute - even in the chaos of war. Mr. Kerry went. He served. Lucky for him, he got to come home and raise his daughters.

Read the rest; it will make you yearn (even more) for the end of this idiotic argument over facts that should not be in dispute.