Every time Kerry takes a dump, he invariably claims he did it "because of Viet Nam".
He is a liar and a fraud. As well, he Is an insult to real soldiers who did and saw a thousand percent more than he could ever dream up.
What Kerry, and all the other 'Black Ops/Special Forces' drunks you meet every night in any bar, do not know is that anyone who ever actually did any of that stuff would never openly discuss it with random strangers. Furthermore, if what you are saying is 'true reality' of specific details of strikes or real programs, you would not be 'allowed' to continue to talk about it. As long as you are spewing bullshit, like Kerry and all his bar room brothers, no one cares.
Recently encountered a guy like that who had the misfortune of discussing an operation conducted in a time and place that my friend with me, had actually been there. My friend kept asking him simple questions which he could not answer. Who was there with you? How did you transit to the site? With every answer the guy would pull out of his butt, my buddy would say, No. No. It doesn't happen like that.
He verbally eviscerated simply by asking him, 'What time was it when you did that? Was it day or night? What equipment did you have? Eventually, the guy lost track of which movie he was trying to remember, and snuck away.
More often than not, the guys who talk the most and the loudest about what a 'hero' they are, like Kerry, are compensating for whatever they really did, if they did anything at all.
It is like pulling teeth to get the 'real' guys to talk about it. It is not something they want to talk about every minute of every day. And they would never trivialize what they and their brothers did by constantly bringing it up in every setting and situation as Kerry always does.