If this isn’t the E-mail of the Day, I’d like to see what is:

Let me wholeheartedly second the thoughts of your reader who wrote about the children of Vietnam veterans. I’m 40 years old. My father was a 20-year Navy veteran of both Korea and Vietnam. Thank God, he was on carriers instead of “in country,” but he did Search and Rescue missions in the South China Sea for downed pilots. I’m a gay social liberal who despises the Christian Right (although I do love NRO), and I would have cut off my right hand before I’d vote for John F******g Kerry. Most of my natural political inclinations would send me happily into the arms of the Democrats, but I’ve never actually voted for one. I can’t bring myself to do it. Just can’t. There’s a large part of me that would consider it a betrayal.