[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.

[mtntop3]

"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."

EXACTLY!!!

Reasons surely exist for the two additional write-ups for Kerry's Silver Star - each add-on at the end(s) being more laudatory and subtly changing the orginal in tone and tenor: Kerry "contributed" to the success of the mission in the Zumwalt original; but the implication in the later two versions is that Kerry, himself,was responsible for the success. The public should be told the reasons for these progressing enhancements. The reasons may be benign. However, to directly, or indirectly, bring about - or condone the bringing about of - these changes for enhancement of one's award/citation certificate would be a scandal.(To view the three versions, see Post #172).