Joseph Robert Kerrey is a model American. He led a distinguished career in both national politics and in his home state of Nebraska. The one-time presidential candidate served on the 9/11 Commission, spent two terms representing his state in the U.S. Senate and was the 35th governor of Nebraska. Before he did all of that, however, he was leading Navy SEAL s into combat during the Vietnam War. Like many SEALs, Kerrey was called on to do what might have been otherwise impossible, such as conduct