duh -- resigned, not designed (FGQTB - fingers going quicker than brain)
Here's Challange #2..
To: Mary Mapes, CBS Evening News
FAX - 212-975-1893
From: Doug XXXXX xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Oct. 6, 2004
re: VVAW; Senator assassination vote
Mary:
Your boss claims to not be biased. Fair enough. But actions speak louder than words. You chased a story for five years intended to do harm to the President.
Let's see how unbiased you are. Let's see how balanced you are. There are TWO major candidates for President of the U.S. and BOTH have military records that have gaps and anomalies.
In particular, John Kerry has posted on his web site a citation for a non-existent medal - a “Silver Star with V” - no such award has ever been made in the history of the Navy. Moreover, the citation, 12 years after the incident, is supposedly authored by John Lehman, the then Secretary of the Navy, who denies any involvement in it or ever signing it.
Secondly, John Kerry’s Honorable Discharge is dated 1991, some twenty years after he completed his tour. He refuses to sign a form 180 that would release his 1970’s records that might shed light on why there is a 20 year gap in the end of his service commitment and his eventual honorable discharge.
These, and other items, are at least as newsworthy as any allegations that Bush missed a medical or received preferential treatment.
I look forward to you equally as aggressive investigation of these anomalies as that which you showed in your pursuit of President Bush.
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PS Coincidentally, this memorandum has been created in Times New Roman font.