KERRY: Paula, I don't have the facts. I really don't. I don't have the answer to that question. But it is a question that's been raised and that ought to be answered. But I don't have the facts.
ZAHN: Well, here are the facts according to "The Boston Globe," your hometown newspaper, that the official record shows that Bush's service included no evidence of any service between May 1972 and October 1, 1973, the official date of his discharge. Does that trouble you, if it's true? And do you believe that to be true?
KERRY: Well, if it's true, it's a legitimate question. But I don't know whether it's true and I don't know the answer to that. And, obviously, it ought to be answered. The person who can answer it is the military and George Bush.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/02/pzn.00.html
"Kerry was given a Silver Star for an action on February 28, 1969:"
" When Kerry's Patrol Craft Fast 94 received a B-40 rocket shot from shore, he hot dogged his craft beaching it in the center of the enemy position. To his surprise, an enemy soldier sprang up from a hole not ten feet from Patrol Craft 94 and fled. The boat's machine gunner hit and wounded the fleeing Viet Cong as he darted behind a hootch. The twin .50s gunner fired at the Viet Cong. He said he "laid 50 rounds" into the hootch before Kerry leaped from the boat and dashed in to administer a "coup de grace" to the wounded Viet Cong. Kerry returned with the B-40 rocket and launcher.."