[gitmo]

I never believed that story that he threw someone else's medals over the wall. So who did he mug to get those medals on his wall? Or did he counterfeit them?

[barker]

Replacement medals. May take hours to wade through all of this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1122563/posts

[Timeout]

I believe he did throw someone else's medals. Given his ambitions, I don't believe for a second Effin would have parted with those them.

For years and years the conventional story that floated around was that Kerry had thrown his own medals. Then, once elected to the Senate, the medals were framed and hung on his office wall.

Eventually a reporter noticed it and asked him about it. Only then (about 8 years ago?) did he change the story and said he'd thrown medals belonging to a couple of wounded vets who couldn't come on their own. There have been several interviews with former members of the VVAW who said Kerry was really opposed to doing the medal-toss.When they insisted on doing the toss, I think he bought some old medals or convinced someone else to swap out with him. We never heard the ribbons-instead-of-medals story until recently.

Today, when libs write their articles on Kerry's antiwar activities, they gloss over the times he let people think he'd thrown his own medals. It's never mentioned. Very interesting if ABC runs with this.

[Terry Mross]

I'm wondering if he didn't actually throw his medals. Then years later applied to the Navy for replacement medals. That would explain why the Secretary of the Navy's signature is from a Secretary of the Navy years after Kerry was discharged.