Responses to Kerry's Speech

John Musgrave gets emotional while reminiscing about Kerry's speech before the Senate: “I thought I had never heard such an incredible speech that says exactly what I’m feeling.  It was extraordinary...extraordinary.” 

Army member Phil Gioia believes that Kerry made it seem like the military was developing the troops into “savages,” which he said isn’t true and that to this day that still makes him mad. 

Cliff Leach of the United States Navy (bottom row, 4th from the left):  "John Kerry's a phony as far as I'm concerned.  For one thing, he's a lying officer.  There's a lot of those.  Believe me, I knew a lot of them.  Officers that I knew that were on the Enterprise were pretty squirrely guys.  You get over to Vietnam and some of them were loose gooses, and he's a loose goose.  He was an antiwar activist, which you know, like I say, everybody's got their own choice of what they want to believe in, but I don't think it was his right to take that away from anybody else."

"He's an officer, he's telling you to do those things and then he goes back and makes fun of you because you did it, or bastardizes you because you did that.  It's just hypocritical, that's just being a jerk, and that's all he was."