[Bommer]

The admin pulled my post. Should have read it first!

An earlier post by brother fReeper Moondoggiehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/11225 63/posts caught an interesting observation on John Kerrys war record. He notices that the signature on both his Citations resembles the signature of Secratary of the Navy John Lehman Secretary of the Navy from Jan 31 1969 - May 4 1972 and not from Sec. of the Navy John H. Caffee who was the Secretary of the Navy during Vietnam (Feb. 5 1981 - April 10 1987)

Thanks to a little Photoshop work, I took both of Kerrys accomodation letters for Bronze and Silver Stars, cutout the signature, ruduced down the transparency on one of the letters, lined both of them up (which is why you see it blurry with the exception of the signatures.

An Exact match, only problem is that they look like a signature from John Lehman Secratary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan and not John H. Chaffee Secretary of the Navy under Nixon

(Thanks Velveeta for the excellent find!)

Both appear to be stamped signatures, but as you can see theres a big problem. Are there any fReepers that can either explain this with proof or is Kerry pulling a fast one?

[Admin Moderator]

"The admin pulled my post. Should have read it first!"

We've read the thread, cleared up the title and moved this thread to the extended news sidebar. We then deleted the duplicate posted in Breaking News.

You all are doing some good work but all you have right now is speculation. Hardly Breaking News at this point. But keep up the good work

[eastforker]

You got the men and the dates transfixed and confused.:An earlier post by brother fReeper Moondoggiehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/11225 63/posts caught an interesting observation on John Kerrys war record. He notices that the signature on both his Citations resembles the signature of Secratary of the Navy John Lehman Secretary of the Navy from Jan 31 1969 - May 4 1972 and not from Sec. of the Navy John H. Caffee who was the Secretary of the Navy during Vietnam (Feb. 5 1981 - April 10 1987)

[deport]

Secretaries of the Navy (Department of Defense)

Name	Term of Office
John Sullivan	September 18, 1947 - May 24, 1949
Francis P. Matthews	May 25, 1949 - July 31, 1951
Dan A. Kimball	July 31, 1951 - January 20, 1953
Robert B. Anderson	February 4, 1953 - March 3, 1954
Charles S. Thomas	May 3, 1954 - April 1, 1957
Thomas S. Gates	April 1, 1957 - June 8, 1959
William B.Franke	June 8, 1959 - January 19, 1961
John B. Connally, Jr	January 25, 1961 - December 20, 1961
Fred Korth	January 4, 1962 - November 1, 1963
Paul B. Fay (acting)	November 2, 1963 - November 28, 1963
Paul H. Nitze	November 29, 1963 - June 30, 1967
Charles F. Baird (acting)	July 1, 1967 - August 31, 1967
Paul R. Ignatius	September 1, 1967 - January 24, 1969
John H. Chafee	January 31, 1969 - May 4, 1972
John W. Warner	May 4, 1972 - April 8, 1974
J. William Middendorf	April 8, 1974 - January 20, 1977
W. Graham Claytor, Jr.	February 14, 1977 - August 24, 1979
Edward Hidalgo	October 24, 1979 - January 20, 1981
John Lehman	February 5, 1981 - April 10, 1987
James H. Webb	May 1, 1987 - February 23, 1988
William L. Ball	March 28, 1988 - May 15, 1989
Henry L. Garrett III	May 15, 1989 - June 26, 1992
Daniel Howard (acting)	June 26, 1992 - July 7, 1992
Sean O'Keefe	October 2, 1992 - January 20, 1993
Admiral Frank B. Kelso, II (acting)	January 2, 1993 - July 21, 1993
John H. Dalton	July 22, 1993 - November 16, 1998
Richard Danzig	November 16, 1998 - January 20, 2001
Robert B. Pirie, Jr. (acting)	January 20, 2001 - May 24, 2001
Gordon R. England	May 24, 2001 - January 30, 2003
Susan Livingstone (acting)	January 30, 2003 - February 7, 2003
Hansford T. Johnson (acting)	February 7, 2003 - September 31, 2003
Gordon R. England	October 1, 2003 - Present

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Navy

[Darksheare]

Odd part about the Lehman signature, they exactly match.
No-one can sign their name the same way every time.

That smells in and of itself.

[stocksthatgoup]

Wonderful match..........Good work everyone.