Yup. Single-handedly took it off a VC while deep inside Cambodia, alone, on a super-secret mission during Christmas 1968 that President Nixon had personally ordered him to undertake when he met with him in the Oval Office at Thanksgiving, 1968. For that matter, Kerry was injured on the mission. Still has the Band-Aid to prove it.
It would be the only thing he owns, if he has one.
He doesn't own any character.
He doesn't own Teresa's fortune.
He doesn't own respect.