Paul Gray
NEWT GINGRICH
A leader of the fight for a flag amendment, he said on a TV show that “for most veterans, the flag is a very real issue.” That left the Congressman, who had a student deferment during the Vietnam War, open to a riposte from World War II vet Daniel Moynihan, who began referring to “we veterans.”
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