Makes sense that a Yale grad w/ a post grad degree & the son of a distinguished WWII pilot/ vet would be accepted to the Nat'l Guard. Anyone know if Johnny ef's dad was a vet?
Richard Kerry grew up in Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University in 1937 and Harvard University Law School in 1940. He met Rosemary Forbes while traveling during a summer vacation in France, where Rosemary lived on the Forbes estate. In January 1941, while stationed at an Army base in Alabama where he tested planes as an Army Air Corps pilot, he and Rosemary were married. He became seriously ill with tuberculosis and was hospitalized in Denver, Colorado, where Rosemary gave birth to their second child, John Kerry. A few months later, the family moved to Massachusetts, where John spent the next six years of his life.
Appears that Johnny's dad spent WWII on a stateside assignment. Wonder if the Forbes family arranged that?