Though it starts with reading into a Cleland comment far too much, it ends up saying some really nice things.
"The fellow veterans - some from the Vietnam era, some from Iraq who stumped with Kerry Saturday - are devoted to him. When Bob Bolduc of Auburn was asked to help Kerry in the Iowa caucuses in ’04, Bolduc said,
“I sold my house, put everything in storage and went around the country for John for a year.”Army veteran Walter Gallagher quipped “I got kidnapped” by persuasive Kerry aides to help “put a veteran in the White House.”
Kerry continues to make vets part of his mission. He talked about wives whose husbands were killed in Iraq “being thrown off base housing” in quick order and said he championed a one-year extension for widows. He recalled a wounded vet “who suffocated to death” when the tube in his throat was not properly cleaned due to a shortage of nurses. “We can do better,” Kerry said.
Beatty has run a spunky campaign, especially calling Kerry to account for voting to authorize military action in Iraq - despite Kennedy’s wise warnings against an invasion. The Republican has shown a grasp of the issues and generally campaigned hard but clean. (An exception: charging Kerry with having “blood on your hands” for his Iraq vote.)"
I would give Beatty less credit with his inane attacks, but this is one of the few articles I've read of the incredible devotion these vets have had to Kerry.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2008_10_29_John_Kerry_on_the_trail_makes_final_pitch/