USA: John Kerry: Unlikely Hero

John Kerry is an unlikely common man's hero coming as he does from a wealthy background. But in the early 1970s Kerry participated in mass rallies against the Vietnam war and appeared at Congressional hearings to recount atrocities that he and fellow servicemen witnessed or committed as an inevitable by-product of misbegotten American policy. That same passion and acute sense of principle, if aroused again and backed up with deeds, would guarantee Kerry a landslide victory in November.