"Kerry lived his first year in Groton and his next five in another Massachusetts town, Millis. But by the time he was 7, the family had moved to Washington. "
When Kerry was 11, his father was appointed legal adviser to James B. Conant, head of the US High Commission for Germany, which later became the US mission to the country. Kerry was sent for the next two years to boarding schools in Switzerland, joining his family in West Berlin only on vacations. By the time Kerry turned 13, his parents decided that they would stay in Europe, and that -- in what Kerry calls a ``Victorian'' process -- their son would return to New England for his education
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OK -- so just exactly when did he drive a tractor? He claimed he did, when he was 12 -- in the US, "on a farm".
I'm just wondering if that farm hand is who taught him the F-word.
Kerry spent almost as much time on the farm, making him an expert on all things farm related, as he did in Viet Nam.
" OK -- so just exactly when did he drive a tractor? He claimed he did, when he was 12 -- in the US, "on a farm".
Kerry's timeline doesn't jibe.
But, don't expect the mainstream misleadia to ask for clarification.
According to the new book on Kerry- " John F Kerry, The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best ,"
Kerry and his family lived in Millis, Mass in a large farmhouse with
" tall ceilings, fireplaces,comfortable library, 6 bedrooms, a pond and a barn." Page 18, ibid.
This was a country estate, not a rough and tumble working farm.
The Kerry's were landed gentry, not humble farmers.
Kerry must have been driving the tractor and tilling the land-when he was 6.
Because in 1950-when Kerry was 7, the family moved to Chevy Chase, MD.
The book details how the family loved living in the political maelstrom of urban Washington,DC.
When Kerry was 10, his parents moved back to Berlin and Kerry was placed in a Swiss boarding school.
Summers were spent at the Forbes family compound in Saint Briac, France.
Perhaps that is where Kerry tilled the soil-along the Brittany coast of France.
In 1956,when Kerry was 13, his parents remained in Europe and transferred John to the Fessenden School in Newton, Mass, where Kerry felt lonely and isolated.
" Summers were the best escape from the stilted, isolated world of prep school
and Kerry spent most of his free time on the water,
either off the shores of Cape Cod or
in the fjords of Norway,
where his father in 1957,became a political officer in the US embassy in Oslo." Page 24, ibid.
No mention of Kerry mucking out stalls on a farm.
Instead, it sounds like Kerry spent idyllic summers sailing with the beautiful people.
Kerry is sounding more and more like he lives in the same fantasy world of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Green acres is the place to be
Farm living is the life for me
Land spreading out,
so far and wide
Keep Manhattan,
just give me that countryside....
You got it!! Flipper's doing it again!! Wait 24 hours and hear the revised version of "farmboy" Kerry.