Because when you see him with Vietnam veterans, people who've been where he has, he's completely different.
That may be true, but Vietnam veterans are a different story.
Her father is a career military officer and Vietnam veteran.
Home to war: a history of the Vietnam veterans' movement.
Both men are Vietnam veterans and have known each other for more than two decades.
"Look at what happened to the Vietnam veterans," she said.
"I make it a point to talk to most of the Vietnam veterans," he said.
They are better organized than Vietnam veterans were at a similar stage.
In fact it was a comment on the treatment of Vietnam veterans.
Of the state's 103,000 Vietnam veterans, 27 are at the institution.