Vietnam Veterans Rally Against Kerry

Some Vietnam veterans, perturbed at having been maligned by John Kerry during his anti-war activist phase, held a rally against him today in Washington.

Before the rally, Tony McPeak, one of Kerry's advisors held a news conference there to say the vets were wrong-headed, and during the rally itself a speech was disrupted by "a lone Kerry supporter in a wheelchair, Vietnam veteran Bobby Mueller."
But there's a little more to Bobby than meets the eye. He was a prominent anti-war activist, the head of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (an organization I've talked about before), and a compadre of John Kerry.

UPDATE:
One of the speakers at the rally was local boy, Dexter Lehtinen.

Vietnam Veteran, Retired Capt. Larry Bailey, with the group, Vietnam Vets for the Truth, addresses the crowd representing men and women who served during Vietnam war, as they stage a 'John Kerry Lied' rally at Upper Senate Park, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004, in Washington.

Vietnam Veterans, from left to right, Mike O'Dea, of Carmel, Ind., Bill Brantley, of Miami, Fla., Marshall Huckaby, of Atlanta, Ga. and Rick Ellison, of Bluffton, S.C. gather with Vietnam Vets for the Truth, as they stage a 'John Kerry Lied' rally at Upper Senate Park, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004, in Washington.

Bobby Mueller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, left, argues with a protester as he disrupts a 'John Kerry Lied' rally put on by Vietnam Vets for the Truth, at Upper Senate Park, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004, in Washington.

UPDATE II
8/8/05
Rick Ellison sent a lovely e-mail. Ellison, Brantley, and Huckaby served together in the 25th Division Long Range Reconnaissance patrol in 1966-1967.

Thanks for your service in Vietnam, y'all, and thanks for rattling your chains as John Kerry's Ghost of Christmas Past. You ruined his script.
That's twice we owe you.