"There are a number of categories of discharges besides honorable. There are general discharges, medical discharges, bad conduct discharges, as well as other than honorable and dishonorable discharges. There is one odd coincidence that gives some weight to the possibility that Mr. Kerry was dishonorably discharged. Mr. Kerry has claimed that he lost his medal certificates and that is why he asked that they be reissued. But when a dishonorable discharge is issued, all pay benefits, and allowances, and all medals and honors are revoked as well. And five months after Mr. Kerry joined the U.S. Senate in 1985, on one single day, June 4, all of Mr. Kerry's medals were reissued."
Could it be that Kerry NEVER had any medals and "throwing them over the fence" was just a cover for not having them in his possession in the first place?
When questioned about them, Kerry stammered, "medals, ribbons, ribbons, medals..."
Perhaps that's why the Swifties highlighted his stuttering in their ad.
Like Faye Dunaway in "Chinatown" -- "She's my Sister...Daughter...Sister...Daughter..."
I'm not quite sure about this since I never served in the military, but can't you go buy your medals and ribbons back except for the medal of honor? If so, he could have thrown his medals away and bought new ones.
what kind of discharge might he have received if (according to a rumor) there was a document containing the words "Unfit for Command"?
That makes a lot of sense about his missing medals and then a re-issue. Good job!
Hmmmm.
Maybe he was dishonorably discharged after four months in country and used the phony 3 purple hearts as cover?
Couldn't we look at his tax returns for the years surrounding the medals reissue and determine if he magically started receiving benefits?
I think he had his medals, but it could be possible he tossed them for spite IF he did in fact receive a DD or BCD, not being able to display them legally anyway. That might have been the impetus for the tossing-them-over-the fence theatrics
#50- sounds right on the money