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During the flight , he told everyone how he had taken a Cessna ( a small General aviation plane ) up with a fighter pilot , and the fighter pilot remarked that Kerry was one of the best pilots he had ever seen . Therefore , to financially contribute to the efforts of either side on this issue is to indeed take a position on the fundamental question of who rightfully belongs on the land that is now Israel . " Since the photograph dates from a time when President Clinton was taking steps towards establishing formal diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Communist government of Vietnam ( a cause for which Senator Kerry and Senator John McCain were leading proponents ) , its significance to the Vietnamese is probably more that it conveys a sense of official U.S. " recognition " of the post-war Vietnamese government ( by dint of U.S. congressmen , including Senator Kerry , meeting with Communist Party officials ) . So does the federal government . After spending a final month at the U.S. Army Engineer Command in Long Binh , Gore was mustered out and sent home two months early to attend Vanderbilt Divinity School . " We therefore had a choice : to wait for what was not a confirmed return by the helos [ and ] give any snipers more time to set up an ambush for our exit or we could take a chance and exit immediately without any cover , " Kerry recorded in his notebook .