After hearing about people wearing the purple-heart band-aid people making fun of John Kerry's war injuries, I decided to do a little research to see if I could find out what really happened. Snopes has a great write-up of what really happened. I can't think of a summary that would give enough justice to what he went through in Vietnam so you should probably just read the whole thing. I still don't think I'll vote for him, but god damn it do I respect him. There's no doubt in my mind that he'd be better than the current court-appointed miserable failure. (did he just say "love"?)