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  • CREW MEMBER QUESTIONED KERRY'S SILVER STAR IN 1996

    08/11/2004 9:02:07 AM PDT · by areafiftyone · 82 replies · 2,671+ views
    Newsmax ^ | 8/11/04
    A Swiftboat veteran who was a member of Sen. John Kerry's crew when their boat was targeted in Feb. 1969 by an enemy rocket launcher has refuted Kerry's claim that he single-handedly saved his crew from the attack - an account that earned the top Democrat the Silver Star. Interviewed during Kerry's 1996 Senate reelection battle, Kerry crew member Tom Bellodeau told the Boston Globe that he - not Kerry - fired the shot the brought down the enemy fighter, who had aimed a loaded rocket launcher at their boat just after Kerry beached it on the Ca Mau peninsula....