[lt.america]

I don't think you are correct about the running for congress (although maybe you jest), he did leave early due to his three purple hearts.

[Hon]

"I don't think you are correct about the running for congress (although maybe you jest), he did leave early due to his three purple hearts."

I am exactly correct.

Kerry got out of active duty in the Navy six months early to run for Congress. He did not run (in 1970). He did run two years later.

Yes, he got reassigned out of VN because of his three PHs. But that was eigth months before his tour was up.