[Jim_Curtis]

"When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy."

I've always had a hunch from when the Crimson article was first brought to light that he made this up also to soften a perceived warrior image for political purposes, this certainly doesn't help him now though. I think with his connections he could have got a deferment.

I think Kerry had subversive reasons for going and I don't think he was acting all on his own. That's just my hunch and it's nothing that I would ever be able to the bottom of.

[dix]

Old news to Freepers, but it's time for the RNC to get on the stick, and fight back.

[Avenger]

This story along with the quote from Kerry stating why he chose duty on the swift boats paints a very different picture of Kerry's service than the one the Kerry campaign wants to portray.

[TomGuy]

The media journalists are too lazy to get away from their wire service feeds to do any legitimate journalistic investigative reporting.

I quoted from "John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress" months ago during the Democrat Primaries. This isn't new information. It has been 'there' since 1970. Journalists are just too lazy or too complicit to dig into Kerry's background.

from The Harvard Crimson
Published on Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Old Crimson Interview Reveals A More Radical John Kerry

Goldhaber, whose first-person profile of Kerry ran in The Crimson Feb. 18, 1970, said yesterday he recalled the candidate as an emerging outsider whose campaign focused squarely on his opposition to the Vietnam War.
[Ironically, Kerry's whole campaign so far has been about his serving in Vietnam, with little mention of his opposition to the war.]

from The Harvard Crimson
Published on Wednesday, February 18, 1970
John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress

He [Kerry] supports a volunteer Army, "if and only if we can create the controls for it. You're going to have to prepare for the possibility of a national emergency, however." Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations. "I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

On other issues, Kerry wants "to almost eliminate CIA activity. The CIA is fighting its own war in Laos and nobody seems to care."

[Irish Eyes]

A senior Republican strategist, who asked not to be named, said: "I've not heard this before.

This senior Republican stategist had better start reading on freerepublic.com ,this news has been around here for quite some time.

[jnarcus]

MAybe one of our service guys can clear somethingup for me....Kerry claims to have been in ROTC during his four years at Harvard...I thought if one was in ROTC during junior and senior years then you were committed to do a certain amount of service when college was over....Am I wrong Was Kerry really in ROTC? Wasn't ROTC mostly for Army and Marines? J F'n Kerry was a sailor wasn't he not a Marine? I dont know I am just so confused by the stories (sarcasm>)

[jetson]

" Johnny, if you wanted to live in fantasy land you should have stuck to making airhead movies like me".

[Doctor Raoul]

All's well that ends well...

When Kerry finally did make it to Paris, he was able to consult and consort with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong.

Outside CBS' NYC network news studio on 57th St during the Democrat Primary debate one Sunday, a group of South Vietnamese veterans chanted "Kerry Viet Cong" at the pen of Kerry Suporters 50 yards away.