At the moment, Thomas Lipscomb at _The New York Sun_ and Jerome Corsi, co-author of _Unfit For Command_, appear to be the ones out front on the issue. Are there any others leading this noble charge? Have there been any more recent stories in the main stream media about Kerry's reasons for hiding his military records?
Hmmm....Kerry? Didn't he run for president?
Hopefully Corsi will run against Kerry for the Senate, as he has alluded to. I believe that Corsi would make this an issue and we would find out what actually happened,even though we pretty much know what transpired. But by bringing this into the open it would spell the end to Kerry as a politician.
"There is no question that Kerry has refused to make his military records public (as has President Bush!)"
I don't believe this is true. As I understand and am willing to be _Proven Wrong_---
President Bush HAS made all records available by signing form 108. There are claims that some docs are missing because some folk want there to be something that diminishes his service. These docs simply do not exist and puts President Bush in the unenvyable and impossible position of having to prove a negative!
One retired US Secretary of Navy (forgot his name, but it's not either Lehman or Warner) said that Kerry received an honorable discharge. But he doesn't have any documents backing it up. So it won't go anywhere.
I think it would still be explosive to find out this was true because we could then use it to show how the media AGAIN ignored Kerry's record and yet went after Bush for false reports.
You get a DD214 every time you are discharged. The one Kerry showed on the web site had a V for valor on the silver star, which is not awarded. The silver star is always for valor. It is a good bet the DD214 he is displaying is a forgery.
It should be easy to obtain any DD214 he was issued under the freedom of information act. To falsify an award or to claim an honorable discharge when it is less than honorable is a serious "faux paus" to use the French term that Kerry, the French looking candidate, would be more comfortable with.
> the issue seems to have now died. THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN!
What say we get Dan Rather on the story?
Is it possible that Kerry's questionable discharge, is due to a STD?
Maybe Dan Rather will investigate this for a 60 Minutes story?
Kerry repeatedly raised the subject of his heroism in Vietnam, and he is still an active politician in the Senate. Questions about his military service deserve to be answered by a full release of his records.
Also, those who served, died, were wounded, or came home from Vietnam only to be treated as criminals instead of heroes deserve to have their stolen honor restored. The matter should not be dropped just because kerry, one of those most responsible for villainizing our troops, lost the race.
Also, what about the POW/MIAs who were probably murdered by the North Vietnamese Communists because kerry misused his position on the Senate committee that was supposed to investigate their plight, and instead decided to cover it up? The man who did this deserves to be scorned and punished for his despicable behavior.
People with questionable discharges need to go see the doctor ASAP...
Let's hope the Swiftvets continue with this.Skerry needs to be exposed for the fraud that he is. I'm confidant that many people here at FR would donate once agian if the Swifties were to do this.