Ted Kennedy - CBS Needs to do some Fact Checking (Says T.K. attended 'every' Iraq soldier's funeral)

Blackfive ^ | August 27, 2009 | Blackfive

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Ted Kennedy - CBS Needs to do some Fact Checking

Posted By Blackfive

Senator Ted Kennedy was a veteran of the US Army.  After getting kicked out of Harvard for cheating, he was drafted.  After serving his three years, he went back to Harvard and you probably know the rest of the story.  

CBS News interviewed staffers and family and did not investigate this claim [emphasis mine].

And, even when he was out-voted, Kennedy was willing to take unpopular stands. He was one of the first politicians to oppose the 2003 American invasion of Iraq.

But Kennedy supported the soldiers who served in Iraq, and their families -
especially those from his own state.
 

"He's gone to the funeral of every soldier who's come home from Iraq in a casket, whether it's up in Massachusetts or at Arlington Cemetery. And it's hard. But he knows it pays respect for giving the last full measure that these young soldiers have given. And after he goes to that funeral, he goes up and visits the graves of his brothers," according to long-time Kennedy aide Melody Miller...

I didn't know about this article until a few soldiers from Massachusets emailed me to tell me that they never saw Senator Kennedy at a military funeral.  I'm sure that he went to some, but "every soldier"?

Here's part of an email from a commander:

I've buried two kids myself, Ted wasn't there. We know this is bullshit. I hope u guys look into it.

Email me if you have seen or not seen Senator Kennedy at a military funeral anywhere.
 

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Thanks to Blackfive for the Tweet

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“Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a “legacy” — his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy’s admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged....

...In a late-1980s media profile, Kennedy was succinctly described as someone who “grew to manhood without learning to be an adult”. He was rumored to have had several affairs while married to his first wife, and had often been seen in public while thoroughly tanked and/or behaving obnoxiously. In 1987 he was caught in flagrante delicto with an unidentified woman on the floor of a restaurant....”

http://www.nndb.com/people/623/000023554/

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Ted Kennedy - CBS Needs to do some Fact Checking

Wait, you apparently don't understand. SeeBS and other members of the liberal government run media, NEVER let facts stand in their way.

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Hmmm....I see the eyeball network, blind as ever, is fully invested in and actively propagating yet another Big Lie.

I'm only surprised they didn't paint him, in the very first paragraph, as a demigod, directly descended from Mt. Olympus.

Boy, BS meters must be going crazy all over the country today!

CA....

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“In June 1952, he was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris. His father’s political connections ensured he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War. While stationed in Europe he traveled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn.He was discharged in March 1953 as a private first class.”

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NOW we find out this damn POS traitor contacted Yuri Andropov in 1983 to suggest forming an alliance with the KGB and several USA Senators against the sitting US government of Ronald Reagan.

A known traitor, to be buried in hallowed ground of Arlington

I hope he’s in the same section of afterlife as Yuri Andropov.

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wikipedia.......only 20 or 21 months....strange length of time for an “enlistee” or draftee, esp during wartime.....wonder what this one did to have such an abbreviated time in service?

Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951.[9] Following basic training at Fort Dix, he requested assignment to Fort Holabird for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped after a few weeks without explanation.[9] He went to Camp Gordon for training in the Military Police Corps.[9] In June 1952, he was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris.[4][9] His father’s political connections ensured he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War.[4][10] While stationed in Europe he travelled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn.[11] He was discharged in March 1953 as a private first class.[9][11]

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Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond.

I thought that was a "road to nowhere" culminating in a "lover's lane" type of area. Sure looks that way on Google Erf. No way he was leaving the island in that direction except by submarine. But perhaps they were going to check on the grunion.

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Couldn't find anything googling for it. Certainly some Massachusetts's freepers will be able to shed light on this.