Request, 
Check - front, 
Check - backPosted on 09/10/2004 9:17:48 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Sen. Kerry's Bonus From The Vietnam War (Documents provided by the Massachusetts State Treasurer's Office)
Request, Check - front, Check - back
Request, Check - front, Check - back
"In his appearance before Lowell's elected leaders, Kerry was questioned sharply by Councilor Phil Shea, a hard-nosed local politician who believed the Democratic candidate's anti-war resolution was politically motivated.
Shea, it appears, was ahead of his time. He brought up several key issues that are resonating today on the national scene as Kerry, a U.S. senator for 22 years, makes a bid for the U.S. presidency.
Thirty-two years ago, the young councilor questioned the young candidate on Kerry's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his decision to return his combat medals and his anti-war activism.
Kerry had filed for and taken a Vietnam bonus of $300 from the state of Massachusetts. All returning Vietnam veterans were eligible to receive the money. The Sun, through a Freedom of Information Act request, has received a copy of Kerry's bonus check. It was issued on Dec. 17, 1969, and authorized by then-state Treasurer Robert Q. Crane.
As Kerry was running for Congress, Shea tried to show the inconsistency in Kerry's stance against the war. If you returned your medals in protest, Shea asked Kerry, why didn't you return your bonus money?
Kerry told Shea and the seven other councilors present that he returned his medals to make a point and would do the same with the money. The Massachusetts Treasurer's Office, which issues the bonus checks, has no record today that Kerry followed through on his promise.
Send that signature to the Free Republic Crime lab for analysis.
He knows Kerry is nothing but a phoney, money-grabbing snob... but so does all of MA.
How Kerry will win this state is a testament to how mentally-skewed its 'citizens' are.
They are one flush behind the French!
CSI-Free Republic.
Great find.
Now we have his service dates and a real signature.
So this cheap phoney kept his check while saying the war was terrible, he had committed war crimes and so had everyother Nam Vet..
For your ping lists.
Dang! Ya beat me to it!
Check it for drooling, we might need D.N.A evidence.
Some interesting stuff for your files on Kerry's service and some insight to his money grubbing lack of character.
Actual discharge date with his signature is here.
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If this is Kerry's signature then, could he have lied about his discharge date? According to docs on his web site he was active until January 3, 1970. The request has an October date on it and the check was issued while he was still on active duty.
I hope I haven't lost my sight this looks a little fishy.
Thanks for the ping!!!
Howie Carr talked about this yesterday on his show on WRKO, Boston. Howie is credible in my book.
www.howiecarr.org
That was posted on FR where he dropped the Forges, er, Forbes and made it just plain ole F.
This is what I found:
In response to a request by Senator Kerry, the Department of the leased a letter detailing the missing period. In a letter dated , 1986, the Navy listed the following:
18 Feb 1966: Enlisted as an OCSA (E-2), USNR (inactive)
19 Aug 1966: Commenced Active Duty as an OCIU2 (E-5)
15 Dec 1966: Honorably Discharged as an OCIU2 to accept commission in United States Naval Reserve
16 Dec 1966: Accepted Commission, Ensign, United States 1 Reserve, continued active duty
16 Jun 1968: Date of Rank as Lieutenant (Junior Grade) (0-2), States Naval Reserve
1 Jan 1970: Date of Rank as Lieutenant (0-3), United States 1 Reserve
3 Jan 1970: Released from Active Duty, transferred to the Naval ve (inactive)
1 July 1972: Transferred to the Standby Reserve (inactive)
16 Feb 1978: Honorably Discharged from the United States I Reserve as a Lieutenant (0.3)
This record makes it clear that John Kerry was always in the Naval Reserves while he served in the military. He enlisted in the Naval Reserves and was initially inactive. He commenced his active duty in August 1966 and was commissioned as an ensign, again in the U.S. Naval Reserves, in December 1966. John Kerry enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserves, and he never left the U.S. Naval Reserves.
The letter dated January 2, 1970, releasing John Kerry from active duty and transferring him to inactive duty in the Naval Reserve stated in paragraph six:
You are advised that your release from active duty does not terminate your status as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve. On the day following the effective date of your release from active duty as specified in paragraph 3 of this endorsement, you will assume the status of a member of the Naval Reserve on inactive duty. While on inactive duty you are subject to involuntary recall to active duty to the extent authorized by federal statute.
There is an important distinction between being in the Naval Reserves on inactive duty and being in the Standby Reserves on inactive duty. Standby Reserve status would permit a person to argue that he was a civilian for all intents and purposes. A person in the Naval Reserves is still considered in the Navy; inactive duty means that the individual or the unit to which that individual has been assigned has not been called up for active duty. Again, note the similarity: John Kerry, when he entered the Navy on February 18, 1966, entered the Naval Reserves on inactive duty. He did not commence active duty until August 19, 1966.
As a member of the Naval Reserves, Kerry would have held a Naval Reserve identification card; he would have received Navy pay; and he would have had continuing, though minimal, obligations to report to official Navy requests for training and to respond to any inquiries advanced to him. In 1971, John Kerry was still in the ven though his status was Naval Reserves, inactive duty.
http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3778
Sen. Kerry's Bonus (check) From
The Vietnam War - Howie Carr
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