I was a hero, but I was surrounded by war criminals."

Mackubin Thomas Owens has a nice summation of John Kerry. In 1971 Kerry accused his fellow soldiers of atrocities. He now glorifies himself as a sparkling war hero.

As a correspondent pointed out to me in an e-mail, each episode of the HBO series Band of Brothers, begins with a voiceover in which the narrator says of the World War II soldiers portrayed in the program: "I was not a hero, but I was surrounded by heroes." In contrast, what John Kerry is saying in essence about his "band of brothers" is that "in Vietnam, I was a hero, but I was surrounded by war criminals."