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Is the footage in the Kerry NY commercials real? (vanity)
The Hill ^ | 2/28/2004 | dilbert56

Posted on 02/28/2004 10:22:03 AM PST by Dilbert56

(First post - please forgive any screw-ups)

New York is now being tortured by Kerry and Edwards commercials. Kerry's, of course, shows him in Vietnam. A couple of days ago this article came out in "The Hill" about how he returned to the scene of one battle and recreated the episode with a movie camera.

Could the footage in the commercial be from that? Inquiring minds want to know.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2004election; ads; campaign; election2004; kerry; kerryad; kerrywasinvietnam; lyingliar; propaganda; reenactment; traitor; vietnam; vietnamwar; warcriminal
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To: monocle
Exactly. What else can he tout as a personal accomplishment?
21 posted on 02/28/2004 1:29:49 PM PST by plain talk
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To: monocle
I have read numerous times that Kerry was in VietNam for only three or four months. I don't understand that.
22 posted on 02/28/2004 1:53:25 PM PST by maxwellp (Throw the U.N. in the garbage where it belongs.)
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To: maxwellp
" I have read numerous times that Kerry was in VietNam for only three or four months. I don't understand that "

John Kerry enlisted in the Navy in February of 1966, months before he graduated from Yale. In December of 1967 Ensign Kerry was assigned to the guided-missile frigate USS Gridley; after five months of service in the Pacific, with a brief stop in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and underwent training to command a Swift boat, a small craft deployed in Vietnam's rivers. In June of 1968 Kerry was promoted to the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), and by the end of that year he was back in Vietnam, where he commanded, over time, two Swift boats. He received the Purple Heart three times for wounds suffered in action, and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Navy's Silver Star for gallantry in action. Kerry was discharged from the Navy in January of 1970, and soon became one of the most prominent spokesmen for the antiwar movement.

He was actually in theater twice, both adding up to approx 4 months.

23 posted on 02/28/2004 4:58:56 PM PST by Kakaze
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To: FairOpinion
"WHY IS KERRY REFUSING TO RELEASE HIS SERVICE RECORDS???? "

It would be different if he just did not want to 'go there'. . .did not talk about it; show home movies about it.

But the truth is; that is all he does; in which case, the records should be available for this man who desperately wants the power of being President.

24 posted on 02/28/2004 9:26:43 PM PST by cricket
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