Posted on 08/19/2004 9:33:21 PM PDT by onyx eyes
John Kerry had his Citation for the Silver Star rewritten 14 years after he received it, according to Brit Hume, Fox News. The rewritten version signed by John Lehman, Secretary of Defense during the Reagan Admin., assumingly, Mr. Hume says, because Lehman would go along with a senior member on the Intelligence Committee.
When I try to download those I can only see the top half of the forms. Is that just my computer being slow or is that the jpg?
I'm hurt - hurt I tell you! I sent this very information to the "reporter" (Dobbs) at the WaPo who wrote the hit piece against Swift Vet Thurlow, and do you know, he didn't even respond to me. Now he has lost the scoop to Brit Hume. Tsk tsk.
I tell you why he had the Lehman copy prepared: It removed reference to shooting a fleeing kid behind a hootch, something not very brave for a war hereo to be awarded for!
I'll have to check, anyone else have problems?
It happens that I re-read the Silver Star citation on JK.com tonight, because I hadn't recalled seeing the slaying of the VC the last time I read it. Sure enough, the version on the website has no mention of the pursuit and shooting of the VC. Just the finding of some abandoned stuff. I assume that the pre-hero Kerry of several years ago didn't want to the baggage of killing a VC, so he had it deleted. Is this the story?
>>I tell you why he had the Lehman copy prepared: It removed reference to shooting a fleeing kid behind a hootch, something not very brave for a war hereo to be awarded for!
The Hyland Citation had already removed that though.
I laid the language of all three of them out at the link below.
I understand why he would want to erase the Zumwalt language (he accomplished that with the Hyland citation).
It still doesn't explain Lehman.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189369/posts?page=25#25
The hooch version is there... it's just buried in a separate file:
www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/militaryrecords_1.pdf
(9 page PDF file)
See PDF Pages 7-8
If this is true, and Lehman backs it up, Kerry is dead in the water. Have my doubts, but also have my fingers crossed.
Yes, and monkeys can fly out of my butt. Just depends on what I had for lunch.
I wonder if John F*ckin' is going to call Brit Hume "a liar" come breakfast.
I don't think the issue is that Lehman rewrote it, I think it's that as Sec of the Navy he could sign off on it. Who rewrote it is probably far more important, as well as what changes were made, and why.
That's why he's a war hero! </sarcasm>
>>I'll have to check, anyone else have problems?
I was able to view the two docs. They came up in separate windows, so it may just be the internet connection.
They are both the same text and signature.
One has the 'official record copy' overtext on it, the other does not.
Is there something else I missed?
Ok, so Hyland also removed the hootch. Only difference I see then is mention of 800 yards in the Lehman version. Why is 800 yards important? I'll email Lehman and ask him!
It would not have been anyone other than Kerry who rewrote it - - I think that should be fairly obvious. And I think the reason it was rewritten - - 14 years after the fact - - would have been for only one purpose: to make it a more flattering part of a future Presidential resume.
Can you think of ANY other viable theory?
Actually, the 800 yards is in both, as well. (I cheated... I did a 'document compare' function in MS Word). The only difference is capitalization... and the text at the bottom that I put in bold on the Lehman version.
Your observation re: the hooch is still valid... that needed to be buried. Who would do that for Kerry? Why would Hyland issue the revised version within a year of the original?
And.... what purpose did the Lehman version serve? As I said, still a curiosity.
It's probably my slow dial-up connection then :) I'll try again, thanks!
I wonder, did the taxpayers foot the bill to have his embellished citation framed for his Senate wall?
Did you know the owner of Fox News openly endorses John Kerry?
PRECISELY. How is that for dishonoring every soldier who ever got a medal?
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