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Kerry's Medals Were Deserved, Says Widow of Slain Comrade, Husband was Swift Boat Skipper (Droz)
The Boston Globe ^
| Friday, August, 27, 2006
| Jessica Vascellaro
Posted on 08/27/2004 5:03:29 AM PDT by kristinn
But Droz, a key witness in the ongoing debate over Kerry's service record, is missing from it, killed in a rocket attack in Vietnam in April 1969 days after Kerry returned home. While Droz cannot defend Kerry, his widow, Judith Droz Keyes, said she feels she must. She said she is confident that her husband would defend both Kerry's record in Vietnam and his antiwar activism.
"John Kerry was a good friend, and a loyal friend to my late husband," she said in a telephone interview from her office in San Francisco. "My husband isn't here to speak, and all I can do is to speak in his name. I don't feel I can remain silent anymore."
Keyes said that by challenging Kerry's record, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group of former veterans opposed to Kerry's presidential candidacy, are dishonoring the memory of men such as her husband who fought by Kerry's side. "The suggestion that what Don did or that the award he got was somehow undeserved is crossing a line," she said.
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She also protested the war, and met with resentment from several men who served with her husband and were reluctant to meet her.
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Over the years, the ties between Kerry and the Droz family have grown deeper. The senator appeared in a 2003 documentary that Tracy Droz Tragos, daughter of Keyes and Droz, produced entitled "Be Good, Smile Pretty," the salutation at the end of her father's letter from Vietnam.
"[John Kerry] has been a very important relation to me for some time," said Tragos, who worked as an intern in Kerry's Senate office in the summer of 1989. "He was the only person who had kept in touch with my family."
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:03:29 AM PDT
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
So the media is reduced to using the widow of a guy who was a Swift Boat skipper to buttress Kerry's claims. Was she on his boat?
Pathetic.
To: kristinn
But she wasn't even in Vietnam, much less on Kerry's boat. How can her opinion be considered valid? </sarcasm>
3
posted on
08/27/2004 5:05:14 AM PDT
by
shezza
(God bless the Swiftees -- they're risking it all to defend their country AGAIN!)
To: kristinn
Let me see if I have this right. The Swift Boat guys are to be ignored as they "weren't on his boat" yet we should believe this woman ... because why?
4
posted on
08/27/2004 5:05:24 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(Mass. Democratic Senators ... always running off whenever one of their passengers goes in the water!)
To: kristinn
Let's find out for sure, get John Edwards to channel this guy.
Talk about wishing and hoping.
5
posted on
08/27/2004 5:05:48 AM PDT
by
Militiaman7
(Jesus is my Physician)
To: kristinn
The Kerry camp has shown how desperate they are.....but now they trot out a widow to do their dirty work? Sheesh.
6
posted on
08/27/2004 5:06:17 AM PDT
by
PilloryHillary
(Kerry lied while good men died. JohnFKerrysucks.com)
To: The G Man
7
posted on
08/27/2004 5:08:41 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(John Kerry & John Edwards: Political Malpractice)
To: kristinn
I knew a guy who's brother once had lunch at a table next to Kerry in 1969 and I KNOW that he must be telling the truth......I'm just waiting for the press to come interview me
8
posted on
08/27/2004 5:10:48 AM PDT
by
CR
To: kristinn
The real question should be... if she did not appear with John Kerry before congress. Did she really protest with him?
9
posted on
08/27/2004 5:11:38 AM PDT
by
rwilson99
(I am a Communist for John Kerry. I was for the 527s, before I was against them.)
To: kristinn
To: Militiaman7
HA! Great idea. Funny how Edwards has slipped below the radar with all the coward and draft dodger venom coming from the Rats.
To: kristinn
This is disgusting! First he uses disabled veterans to whine for him, and now he uses a widow. What is he going to do now-troll for some more widows to who weren't even in Nam to vouch for him?
12
posted on
08/27/2004 5:16:08 AM PDT
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
To: RogueIsland
Must have been a conjugal visit
To: kristinn
"John Kerry was a good friend, and a loyal friend to my late husband," she said in a telephone interview from her office in San Francisco. What makes this seem utterly predictable?
To: kristinn
Man, this just gets better all the time. These people are even more desperate than I had imagined. The poor Globe -- its little cheerleader outfit is all covered with mud.
15
posted on
08/27/2004 5:17:22 AM PDT
by
speedy
To: conservative in nyc
Judith Keyes of Morrison & Foerster Image: Jason Doiy / The Recorder
Boston in Common Attorneys from around the country, many with ties to Kerry or Edwards, to appear on the Democratic National Convention floor
Brenda Sandburg The Recorder 07-27-2004
The first time Judith Droz Keyes attended a Democratic National Convention it was 1968, and she never made it inside.
She was among the throngs of anti-war protesters who were pummeled outside the convention by the Chicago police. An officer on a horse struck Keyes on the head with his baton, she says. At the time, her husband was serving in Vietnam as a swift boat officer, in the same squadron as John Kerry. Eight months later, Keyes' husband died, spurring her to become more active in the anti-war movement. That's where she met Kerry.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1090180176989
To: kristinn
Obviously, you don't have to be on the boat, as the media claim in order to be credible, you just have to be pro-Kerry.
17
posted on
08/27/2004 5:18:56 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: RogueIsland
This is exactly how they play the game. Hey let's use the dead guys wife, "who would have the nerve to go against her"--a sure sign of desperation, and slick operators.
18
posted on
08/27/2004 5:19:14 AM PDT
by
keysguy
(Trust the media as far as you can throw them)
To: RogueIsland
19
posted on
08/27/2004 5:21:49 AM PDT
by
Cosmo
(liberalism is for girls...and their hamsters)
To: Howlin
Awesome comparison! I have that picture framed on the wall in front of my computer. I never considered that.
As far as the thread goes, I guess "bring it on" means Kerry is gonna stand behind the widows and amputees. What a punk!
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:22:05 AM PDT
by
normy
(Just cause you think you can box, doesn't mean you're ready to climb in the ring with Ali.)
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