[narby]

He also earned a Bronze Star and a Silver Star, the latter for beaching his patrol boat and jumping ashore to chase down and kill a Viet Cong guerrilla who used a rocket launcher to fire on his men.

The full story here is that the Cong ran behind a hooch, which was then fired on by the boats 50cal. THEN Kerry got off the boat and went behind the hooch, where he found the apparently wounded (dead?) Cong. Kerry shot him again, and took the RPG back to the boat.

That's what he got the silver star for.

[pipecorp]

This sounds more like John "do you know who I am?" Kerry.