[Cooter]

4 bronze stars - one for each month.

[kabar]

LOL

[Bob]

4 bronze stars - one for each month.

That's not how they're awarded. See my previous post.

[ScottFromSpokane]

These "bronze stars" are not Bronze Star Medals, but bronze service stars for service in four different campaigns.

However, there's (sigh) some question about whether Kerry actually deserved all four of those stars.

Kerry's Web site also carries a DD215 form revising his DD214, issued March 12, 2001, which adds four bronze campaign stars to his Vietnam service medal. The campaign stars are issued for participation in any of the 17 Department of Defense named campaigns that extended from 1962 to the cease-fire in 1973.

However, according to the Navy spokesman, Kerry should only have two campaign stars: one for "Counteroffensive, Phase VI," and one for "Tet69, Counteroffensive."