Maybe Kerry is good for something after all.

Carridine, whose comment I published earlier, sends this additional thought:

And I am grateful to Kerry for his blindness and arrogance, if only that he has allowed the opening and draining of this pus-filled wound HE caused, 35 years ago!

Maybe every dorkdark cloud really does have a silver lining. We're finally having the discussion we should have had over 30 years ago, and I hope it's been as cathartic for a lot of other vets as it has been for Carridine and for me. 2NOV04 truly will be Veterans' Day, and President Bush's 2nd Inauguration will feel like a nation-wide Welcome Home party.

Never forget, never forgive, and never, ever, let another generation of warriors be treated like ours was.

Cross-posted at The Mudville Gazette