[kennedy]

[syriacus]

Very nice article. Thanks for posting it.

[mondoman]

This is a GOOD post to save for future rebuttals when the NG card is played against Bush.

[brbethke]

I can't help but notice the *incredible* resemblance. What do you think? Kerry and Gomer, separated at birth?

[Pearls Before Swine]

This photo accentuates his resemblance to Gomer Pyle.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

The more I read about Kerry the bigger turd he becomes.

[stylin19a]

Seems like a good Freep sign---> "Three and out".

[clyde260]

Yeah, In country for less than 4 months, and he has time to collect:

3 Purple Hearts
1 Bronze Star
1 Silver Star, time enough to observe all manner of atrocities perpetrated by his fellow G.I.'s, (but not enough time to report any of this), and all from a boat.

It's dumb enough to make my posterior really hurt!

[Mich0127]

purple hearts, yellow horseshoes, magic rainbows...Lucky Charms are marshmellowy delicious....because that is the equivalent of Kerry's Purple Hearts!

We should all send him a box of Lucky Charms..who knows what other medals he will find for his "service" in Vietnam in there!

[Dante3]

Kerry is obviously hiding something. It is time for the media to start asking him hard questions. Somehow I have great difficulty picturing Kerry as heroic -- not only because he is such a dork but his lying and flip-flopping that I associate with cowards.

[kellynla]

Kerry is not only a bald faced liar, he is also a fraud!

I have never heard of anyone going to their superior officer "requesting" a Purple Heart! Ridiculous!
Kerry clearly had an agenda. He didn't want to go into the service to begin with; when he requested that the draft board give him a year to go to Europe. Then he finds out that if he receives 3 PH's he can return stateside. And then as soon as he hit Nam he comes up with these three PH's; that I have never heard of anyone receiving 3 PH's in less than 4 months and not spend one night in a hospital.

And for the good folks of Massachusetts not calling this clown on his service record for over 30 years is an outrage!

Semper Fi,
Kelly

Viet Nam Veterans Against John Kerry
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com

[kitkat]

BUMP and thanks

[ride the whirlwind]

...critics have begun to wonder why he has been so cagey about the dubious circumstances surrounding the Purple Hearts that got him out of Vietnam after only four months of combat service. Under the rules, a serviceman had to be awarded three Purple Hearts to apply to go home. Not one or two, but three. And, say critics, there's the rub.

I added my name to an on-line petition to demand that the Kerry campaign release his military records. This was a few weeks ago and have heard nothing more about it, and probably never will. The man reeks of deceit!

[Cicero]

Well the other strange thing about this story is that he sank a sampan and killed everyone aboard without making any attempt to stop them and see what they were up to.

Moreover, he was not acting under orders to do so, according to this writer. I can't help wondering whether he took advantage of a chance to sink an innocent, unarmed fishing boat and in order to gain one of his false Purple Hearts at no risk to his own precious hide.

I suppose how you interpret this would depend on the rules of engagement for that particular time and place. But it strikes me as very likely an atrocity or war crime. Undertaken at his own responsibility and without orders. No wonder his admiral thought he was a loose cannon who couldn't be trusted.

[sauropod]

ty for posting this.

[GeoPie]

Bump for later read

[js1138]

Boston whaler

[js1138]

I was at Cam Ranh bay in December 1968. It would take a miracle to win a Purple Heart at that place and time.

[bayourod]

Kerry is the BEST!
He's the best the Democrats have to offer, and that's pathetic.

[stuartcr]

At least Kerry left CONUS, and was actually in-country.

[ohmage]

Two of the most shocking pictures of those times, imo, were traitor jane seated in an AA position looking for an American plane to shoot down and John Kerry leading a pack of alleged vietnam vets against the war in an anti-war march.

I think it was their coming out demonstration and it left me with a sick feeling that is renewed every time Kerry's name is heard.