Kerry Slept in Georgetown While Vietnam Buddies Camped Out

Kerry Slept in Georgetown While Vietnam Buddies Camped Out

(EXCERPT) During Thursday night's debate, Democratic presidential
front-runner John Kerry had his best moment when he was challenged
over the major anti-war protest he organized in 1971 after returning
from Vietnam.

"I could not be more proud of the fact that when I came back from that
war, having learned what I learned," said Kerry, "that I led thousands
of veterans to Washington, we camped on the [Capitol Mall underneath
the Congress, underneath Richard Nixon's visibility."

Kerry told the debate audience that while Nixon tried to "kick us off"
the Mall, "we stood our ground and said to him, 'Mr. President, you
sent us 8,000 miles away to fight, die and sleep in the jungles of
Vietnam. We've earned the right to sleep on this Mall and talk to our
senators and congress...

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