His general view is that Mr. Kerry made up stories just to get himself in the papers. Unfortunatley, he did it at the expense of the morale, trust, and digity of his fellow veterans.
Well, an interesting point here. Have you or your uncle ever actually read or heard Kerry's entire testimony? If not, make it a point to do so. In it he talks about having come from a meeting (which it is documented he WAS at) with veterans who told the type of stories he describes in his testimony. He cites the testimony from this meeting as his proof.
So I don't think you can say he "made it all up" but rather that he just repeated what others had told him. That's certainly not a shocking thing for a 26-y/o to do.
If you check out his testimony and his interviews from the time, Kerry's biggest argument about the US being involved in "war crimes" is the use of "free fire zones" which are CLEARLY a violation of the Geneva Convention and were widely used in Vietnam.
1. The meeting in question is the "Winter Soldier Investigation", and most of the 'veterans' turned out to be liars.
2. Free fire zones are not violations of the Geneva convention. They are often misrepresented as being zones where you can shoot anything you want, this is not the case. The Court Martial of Rusty Calley over the My Lai incident demonstrates beyond all reasonable doubt that behavior within FFZs had to conform to the Geneva Convention.
