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Curmudgeons Corner makes everything clear... when John Kerry was testifying before the Senate in the early 70's, he wasn't talking about other swift boat vets... he was talking about guys like Max Cleland, John McCain, Al Gore... all of the Vietnam vets except for the swift boat guys.

And then we see Kerry unable (or unwilling) to answer a simple question from Jon Stewart: "Were you or were you not in Cambodia?" ... bear in mind, this was an event that Kerry himself stated, on the Senate floor in 1986, was "seared--seared" into his memory. Kerry is the guy who wants to set foreign policy for the United States of America, yet he gets derailed by that media heavyweight Jon Stewart. Think how Kerry would handle Yasser Arafat. Or the North Koreans.

Then the Washington Post refutes Kerry's first purple heart, using Kerry's own diary:

A primary claim against Mr. Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans is that Mr. Kerry's first Purple Heart — awarded for action on Dec. 2, 1968 — did not involve the enemy and that Mr. Kerry's wounds that day were unintentionally self-inflicted.
They charge that in the confusion involving unarmed, fleeing Viet Cong, Mr. Kerry fired a grenade, which detonated nearby and splattered his arm with hot metal.
Mr. Kerry has claimed that he faced his "first intense combat" that day, returned fire, and received his "first combat related injury."
A journal entry Mr. Kerry wrote Dec. 11, however, raises questions about what really happened nine days earlier.
"A cocky feeling of invincibility accompanied us up the Long Tau shipping channel because we hadn't been shot at yet, and Americans at war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky," wrote Mr. Kerry, according the book "Tour of Duty" by friendly biographer Douglas Brinkley.

The only way I can see for Kerry's journal to match with the first Purple Heart is if Kerry was in the habit of writing the dates in his journal in Roman numerals... utterly preposterous for a military man, and utterly bizarre for ...well, pretty much anybody.

Then someone posts the entire text of John Kerry's book The New Soldier to the internet. Now everyone can read for themselves why it is that the Swift Boat vets are so mad at Kerry.

If Jon Kerry keeps on imploding at this rate, he'll be a black hole by the beginning of November.