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John Kerry Had his Citation Rewritten 14 Years After Awarded

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brithume; citation; johnlehman; kerry; militaryrecord; rewritten; silverstar
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To: The Bandit

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?


61 posted on 08/19/2004 11:46:23 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: onyx eyes

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.


62 posted on 08/19/2004 11:51:10 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: calcowgirl

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!



63 posted on 08/19/2004 11:52:08 PM PDT by The Bandit
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To: Fedora

I'll have to check, anyone else have problems?


64 posted on 08/19/2004 11:52:54 PM PDT by The Bandit
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To: onyx eyes

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?


65 posted on 08/19/2004 11:55:52 PM PDT by Original Kamaaina
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To: The Bandit

>>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


66 posted on 08/20/2004 12:24:19 AM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: Original Kamaaina

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



67 posted on 08/20/2004 12:26:11 AM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: onyx eyes

If this is true, and Lehman backs it up, Kerry is dead in the water. Have my doubts, but also have my fingers crossed.


68 posted on 08/20/2004 12:26:12 AM PDT by Casloy
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Yes, and monkeys can fly out of my butt. Just depends on what I had for lunch.


69 posted on 08/20/2004 12:27:59 AM PDT by Casloy
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To: onyx eyes

I wonder if John F*ckin' is going to call Brit Hume "a liar" come breakfast.


70 posted on 08/20/2004 12:28:14 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Lancey Howard

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.


71 posted on 08/20/2004 12:30:21 AM PDT by Casloy
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To: Texasforever

That's why he's a war hero! </sarcasm>


72 posted on 08/20/2004 12:35:16 AM PDT by lemura
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To: The Bandit; Fedora

>>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?


73 posted on 08/20/2004 12:36:37 AM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl

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!


74 posted on 08/20/2004 12:37:44 AM PDT by The Bandit
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To: Casloy
Who rewrote it is probably far more important, as well as what changes were made, and why.

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?

75 posted on 08/20/2004 12:43:26 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: The Bandit

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.


76 posted on 08/20/2004 12:43:40 AM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl

It's probably my slow dial-up connection then :) I'll try again, thanks!


77 posted on 08/20/2004 12:45:16 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: onyx eyes

I wonder, did the taxpayers foot the bill to have his embellished citation framed for his Senate wall?


78 posted on 08/20/2004 12:54:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Texasforever

Did you know the owner of Fox News openly endorses John Kerry?


79 posted on 08/20/2004 1:30:59 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (JOHN KERRY is as much like the WORKING MAN as WHOOPIE GOLDBERG is to GEORGE W. BUSH! - Vote BUSH!)
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To: Lancey Howard

PRECISELY. How is that for dishonoring every soldier who ever got a medal?


80 posted on 08/20/2004 1:43:47 AM PDT by Casloy
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