Dead Cant Rant

From Unfit for Command, chapter four:

“Kerry seemed to believe that there were no rules in a free-fire zone and you were supposed to kill everyone. I didn’t see it that way. I will tell you in all candor that the only baby killer I knew in Vietnam was John F. Kerry.

William Franke, Swift Boat Veteran, Coastal Division 11

From all the evidence that has come out thus far, it sounds increasingly like John Kerry was trigger-happy, willing to shoot at anything that moved.

Sound far-fetched?

While the Brinkley biography recalls that he used the call sign Square Jaw for a short time in Vietnam, it doesn’t mention the sign he actually used for most of the tour: Boston Strangler.