Posted on 08/17/2004 12:05:11 PM PDT by LibertyJihad
Last night Hurley was reading a citation from the Navy and it said thru-out...."J.G. KERRY" It did NOT say J. F. Kerry!!! What did he do, change his middle name???
Anyone know???
His rank was LTJG (LT Junior Grade, 0-2, the second lowest officer rank), so that was probably what you read. He was probably referred to as, "LT JG Kerry".
Kerry was in Vietnam?
Are you sure? I have never heard that.
Kerry was in Vietnam?
He went to Korea to pick up some Kimchi for lunch..
I am sharing a letter my brother sent to Rush Limbaugh regarding Kerry's speech at the DNC when he recalled his bicycling into Berlin.
Having lived in Berlin, a few thoughts on John Kerry: Was his father a Diplomat, Legal Advisor, or a Foreign Service Officer? I guess like Medals and Ribbons they are interchangeable.. Working at the US Mission, Kerry would have lived in Dahlemdorf, a suburb of Berlin, which was actually in very nice condition after the war. For Kerry to have to have gone from dahlem to the bombed out Kufurstedam (quite some distance from Dahlemdorf) would not have been difficult if he traveled by train, however to get a 1950’s bicycle thru gates and turnstyles, let alone on to be allowed on a train would have been very difficult. Going a further to Checkpoint Charlie, would have been a huge trek by bicycle (single speed 1950’s), travel by train w/ bike difficult, and then to think that US Soldiers, and then followed by Russian Soldiers would have allowed him a (12 year old) and his bicycle thru the checkpoint even with a Diplomatic Passport (unconceivable) Riding his bike thru the Brandenburg Gate he says.. I am pretty sure no one got near the Brandenburg gate at this time, let alone..riding his bike thru. He observes “a very perceptible difference - the darkness, the lack of automobiles, the dark clothes.” Both sides of Berlin (East and West) had just gone thru a war.. Was East Berlin really so noticeably different from West Berlin. 25 years after the wall.certainly, but in 1954. to say.”the darkness” , he must have been extremely perceptive at 12. Wouldn’t such a perceptive 12 year old have realized the problems of going into Berlin. He comments of “riding on a train overnight through the Russian sector” and soldiers “rapping on the windows”, this would have been the duty train from Berlin to Helmstead (West Germany) across the East German Corridor, while it was under Soviet Authority was not exactly the “Russian Sector” which refers to heavily Soviet occupied East Berlin. These were the only trains with shades. The shades on trains were instituted by American Forces to discourage trading with soviet guards at the Pottsdam train station. So any rapping was most likely from an American officer walking outside the train. The Soviets were not allowed to touch the train, and from the soviet standpoint, they probably could have cared less if the shades were up or down. I can’t disprove any of his claims, simply in my mind, it raises lots of questions.
William
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