The NYT has an article about the ribbons/medals lies in today's edition.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124415/posts Throughout much of his political career, Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has faced questions about a singular event that took place 33 years ago last week: he and fellow veterans discarded medals in Washington to protest the war in Vietnam.
The Kerry campaign Web site says it is "right-wing fiction" that he "threw away his medals during a Vietnam War protest."
Rather, the Web site says, "John Kerry threw away his ribbons and the medals of two veterans who could not attend the event."
But the issue is not so cut and dried. A television interview Mr. Kerry gave in November 1971 shows that Mr. Kerry himself fed the confusion from early on. The New York Times obtained a videotape of the interview late last week...(snip)
Tator, fyi post 241. The NY Times has the tape too.
Prairie
284 posted on
04/26/2004 8:13:11 AM PDT by
prairiebreeze
(Resign and testify you feckless, duplicitous, devious traitor. Yes, Jamie, I mean you!)