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"I didn't really want to get involved in the war", Kerry said in a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."Being on a loud swift boat in the rivers and off the coast of Vietnam is NOT far from danger. The engine noise attracts attention, and it's considered a high value target because those boats are expensive military hardware.
And just so you understand, the rich and powerful could find ways of avoiding any kind of service (like Trump did) or find ways of serving far from the action (like George W. Bush did).