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John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior United States Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to then President George W. Bush.
The son of an Army Air Corps serviceman, Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado. He attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and went on to graduate from Yale University class of 1966, where he majored in political science. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966 and, during 1968-1969, served a four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat. For that service he was awarded several combat medals that include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. After returning to the United States, Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in which he served as a nationally recognized spokesperson and as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam war. During that period, he appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of "war crimes".
You hit the ground 3000 miles too fast and you break
You fall into rivers of tears and you ache
And you hold onto the brink and you fall, you sink, it laughs and you think
I’m ok!
Well if I’m ok
Why do I break?
And If I fall will I reform?
And If I fall will I reform?
So you pick yourself up and they laugh
And you dust yourself down to reveal scars
and you hold on to the hope that wings will come to fix you
But it’s too late
And If I’m Ok?
Why does she break?
If I fall will I reform?
If I fall will I reform?
3000 miles and no one saves you
Please don’t drown in your own tears
And I will try to save you
If you’d only try and save me
When you fall, you will reform
When you fall