Actually they weren’t his medals, they belonged to someone else.
Blechh!!
Actually, they were his ribbons and someone elses medals. The pr*ck was anticipating office is my guess.
Eight years later in 1996, Kerry said while he did throw out his ribbons, he didn't throw out his own medals because he "didn't have time to go home [to New York] and get them," he told The Boston Globe.