“He was a good soldier,” Tam told Kerry, explaining the training and skill required to handle an R-40 grenade launcher. Up until that moment, all Kerry knew was that he had shot a Viet Cong soldier. They charged that he did nothing particularly heroic in Ca Mau and that the Viet Cong he shot was just a teenage boy. A man waves as the boat with U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry aboard travels past him in the Mekong River Delta. “John Kerry loves Vietnam, and Vietnam loves John Kerry,” said Ed Miller, a Vietnam historian at Dartmouth College with whom Kerry consulted about the trip.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2017 15:54 UTC