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Our newspaper in my small town published my letter to the editor about John Kerry in our Sunday paper (obviously the most widely read). Even better, they titled it: "An Heroic Leader". And this is a paper the tilts greatly to the right most of the time.
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On March 13, 1969, a Green Beret lieutenant, Jim Rassmann, was on a reconnaissance mission in a river in Vietnam as part of a convoy of five boats. Suddenly, the convoy came under attack in a massive ambush. Mines beneath the boats exploded and machine-gun fire erupted from the banks of the river. One of the explosions knocked Rassmann overboard, into mine-infested water with gunfire flying overhead from both sides of the river. Pulled by the weight of his equipment, Lt. Rassmann sank under the water.
Shedding his heavy ammunition and equipment, Rassmann surfaced. He was taking fire from both banks, and there was no way to swim ashore without being killed. Things looked very grim for Lt. Rassmann. The boats were already downriver, and besides, what kind of man would be heroic enough to turn his boat around, head back into enemy fire, reach down into mine-infested waters and pull him to safety?
But one of the boats did turn around, heading back into enemy fire and explosive mines. And a man did expose himself to enemy fire, reaching down his with own bloody, wounded arm and fished Lt. Rassmann out of the water. That man was John Kerry, and those actions saved Rassmann's life and earned Kerry a Bronze Star with the Combat V.
In 1969, John Kerry was the guy you wanted to lead your swiftboat. In 2004, he's the guy you want leading your country.
Now, like then, John Kerry will make sure that no one gets left behind.
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