Thank you Don, but...
The lying jerks running around demeaning John Kerry's war record are, themselves, undeserving of respect or regard. They are partisan hacks, incapable of telling the truth.
While I agree that much of the criticism of Kerry is probably unfair (though I also think that only a Vietnam vet can honestly determine if it really is so), as I said in another thread if Bush had Kerry's war record the left would be shreiking at the top of it's lungs that he (Bush) was a war criminal.
Playing the "partisan hack" card in the 'Zone is an absurdity. In here, partisanship is the very fabric of space/time.