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Going Up River
(quicktime .mov - 671 megs) - imdb info.

This revealing documentary chronicles Senator John Kerry's tour of duty (as the skipper of a Swift Boat) in Vietnam, his controversial contributions to the peace movement that followed and, ultimately, the shape his political career took after the turbulent 1960s.

A sound clip where twenty seven year old John Kerry testifies before the senate relations committee regarding the war in Vietnam - Thursday, April 22, 1971:

excerpts from John Kerry's Testimony
(mp3 - 364k - 3:05 minutes)

...when, in 30 years from now, our brothers go down the street without a leg, without an arm, or a face, and small boys ask why, we will be able to say "Vietnam" and not mean a desert, not a filthy obscene memory but mean instead the place where America finally turned and where soldiers like us helped it in the turning.

tags: politics,  video
going upriver October 15, 2004