in case you were wondering
In a story about whether the presidential candidates served in Vietnam, the Stamford Advocate reports:
Like Dean, anti-war candidate Dennis Kucinich was disqualified from serving because of a medical problem. The Ohio congressman said he has a heart murmur.
Kucinich said in an interview that he opposed the Vietnam War, but would have served if he could. He said as a child he was interested in going to one of the service academies and following in the footsteps of his father, a World War II veteran who had a silver plate in his knee from a combat wound and kept a Marine emblem hanging on the wall.
Kucinich has a sister and two brothers who served in the military. His brother Frank served in Vietnam.
"The heart murmur changed a lot," he said. "I graduated in '64, a class that took a lot of casualties. ... Sometimes you just have to say but for the grace of God go I."
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