[aloysius89]

Not to reopen a can of worms but last night I was following this thing and all the talk was about the Lehman signatures and rubber stamps or auto-signature machines. In the post I am replying to, the signature on the unit citation and the signature on Kerry's documents are NOT identical. I don't know what any of this means but I sure would like to hear the explanation.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Kerry's Citation for his Silver Star medal has been written three times: each time by a different official.

The questions about signatures and signature machines merely verifies that Lehman did actually sign the Silver Star citation more than 15 years after Kerry left the service.

The last two revisions came YEARS after Kerry left Vietnam, left the service completely, and were changed by VERY high-ranking officials (Commander, Pacific Fleet and Secretary of the Navy).

There was NO REASON for the SAME CITATION to be revised three times after the war was over and Kerry had left the service.

Other than to make John Fking Kerry look better in his Senate Office building "medallic shrine" by scoring ever higher and higher ranking "signatures" on his wall.

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Also found were official revisions (made in March 2001) to Kerry's official discharge records (his DD214 Form) adding FOUR MORE bronze "campaign stars" to his medal collection.

[idkfa]

No, they are not identical signatures. There were two issues:

First was the identical signatures on Kerry's two documents. They are likely rubber stamped or auto signatures, probably not a big deal.

The second was to properly identify those signatures on Kerry's citations by comparing them to known signatures of John Chaffee's and John Lehman's. A fellow Freeper scanned his Navy Unit Commendation from 1986 and the signature is indeed Lehman's. Chaffee was Secretary of the Navy during Kerry's Vietnam tour, Lehman wasn't until the 80's so Kerry had his citation reissued for some reason. Speculation was that there was language added in the 80's version that made Kerry look better in preparation for the senate and presidential campaigns. What happened to his original citations?