[kabar]

What I also find strange is how quickly Kerry received his Silver Star. The photo seems to indicate he received his Silver Star on Feb 28, but it also appears the action took place around the same date. As someone who spent almost 8 years as a naval officer and 20 months in a combat zone, 8 months offshore and 12 months in-country, I cannot believe an award nomination and approval could be done so quickly. It took months to get medals through the approval process.

[SwiftBoatSailor]

Paraphrasing Winston Churchill:

"Never in the field of American politics has so much been
touted by so many about so few months in Vietnam"

Only one question: Why did he REQUEST to leave after only
four months of his twelve month obligation? More than two
million Americans served in Vietnam. And they all served
their entire obligation to that conflict. I did so on Swifts.

If he would release his medical records from those short
months, maybe we would be able to form an opinion on this
question. But so far, he has refused to make disclosure of
these and other pertinent documents about his service.
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Four versus Twelve. That is the question.
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