A gift. He could have apologised for any perceived offense to the military and their families.
It's fortunate he was born rich. Without servants, he bloody well couldn't tie his shoelaces.
Regards, Ivan
He doesn't realize that it's a pattern of behavior on his part and not just a one shot deal.
Kerry wasn't born to wealth. His father married a Forbes, social name, not a lot of money. His Forbes relatives paid his prep school and college fees.
He has never held a regular job in the private sector. His first marriage was to a wealthy socialite who divorced him, and at one point sued him, or filed against him for non-payment of child-support.
He married the rich widow of John Heinz.
Howie Carr, Boston Herald columnist and Boston radio talk show host calls Kerry, America's most successful gigolo.
Teddy Kennedy shepherded Kerry through his unsworn Vietnam lies before the U.S. Senate in the 1970 s and then engineered his appointment to junior senator for life.
You need a haz-mat suit to wade through the bog of Massachusetts poilitics. Massachusett's is the home of The Big Dig. You cannot embarrass these people.
His father prolly survived on his civil service pay which is why he (the father) took so many overseas assignments. Following WWII, the greenback was god, even our NCO's in the Army of Occupation (Germany) had maids and servants.
Notice all the photos such as him with John Kennedy. Everyone is in casual shorts and the like, but there is Lurch in a suit?
Can you imagine when he visited his cousins in France? (His cousin speaking to her mother in French: Mama!, do I have to be seen with Le cousin Horseface? I'd rather give up my virginity to a Bosch infantry Division!
Her mother replies, " Hush child, your grandmer and I have already done that! Now be nice and get him some apples or carrots)