The Navy has some serious explaining to do.
If this clown was such a *uckup then why in hell did they give him a Bronze Star and a Silver Star? Hellooooooo
Purple Hearts for scratchs on days there was no enemy contact? And Bronze & Silver Stars for doing what all of us who were in combat did every day ??? Hellooo again? Is anybody home????
This whole record of Kerry smells to high heaven!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
I agree. In the Army 3 hearts might get you out of the field, but I never saw anyone get a free pass home. Until the rules changed in '67 or '68, in the Army, they gave out Hearts by the crate load, after that you had to actually had to get wounded and recieve medical attention, if I remember correctly.
Elliott signed off on at least one citation (the Silver Star), and now has come saying that if the information is true, that Kerry chased one Viet Cong and dispatched him, had he (Elliott) been given that version of events when he was considering the citation, he (Elliott) would not have signed off. He has sworn this in an affidavit dated August 6, 2004.