U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry (L) puts his arm around Jim Rassmann, a Green Beret whose life Kerry saved in Vietnam, at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, January 17, 2004. The two had not seen each other since 1969. Kerry saved Rassmann's life when he pulled him out of the water during combat in Vietnam. US ELECTION REUTERS/Lou Dematteis/HO LD