Vetting the Vet Record. Is Kerry a proud war hero or angry antiwar protester?

NRO ^ | January 27, 2004, 8:25 a.m. | Mackubin Thomas Owens

[neverdem]

I think you might have misread part of the story. I went back and reread the story, and it seems to me that Kerry gave Congress his second hand account of the testimony he heard in Detroit in January 1971, at The "Winter Soldier Investigation". Apparently, most of that testimony could not be corobrrated by the Naval Investigative Service.

BTW, Dewey Canyon II started in January 1971 which was the South Vietnamese offensive into Laos supported by U.S. forces in adjacent I Corps, and the press made almost as much stink about it as the Cambodian Incursion in the previous year. Hence in April 1971 they called their D.C. operation Dewey Canyon III.

I respect his decorations and his military service, but not his second hand attestations and the rest of his service to this country.

[neverdem]

corobrrated = corroborated, what the heck

[.cnI redruM]

Even if his attestations were 2nd hand, he is responsible. He was an officer. He was charged with upholding the UCMJ. He was derelict in this duty and is therefore no longer worthy of an honorable discharge.

[.cnI redruM]

Very nice. Great site.

[neverdem]

"John Kerry enlisted in the Navy in February of 1966, months before he graduated from Yale. In December of 1967 Ensign Kerry was assigned to the guided-missile frigate USS Gridley; after five months of service in the Pacific, with a brief stop in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and underwent training to command a Swift boat, a small craft deployed in Vietnam's rivers. In June of 1968 Kerry was promoted to the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), and by the end of that year he was back in Vietnam, where he commanded, over time, two Swift boats. He received the Purple Heart three times for wounds suffered in action, and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Navy's Silver Star for gallantry in action. Kerry was discharged from the Navy in January of 1970, and soon became one of the most prominent spokesmen for the antiwar movement."

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/clips/news_2003_1119a.html

You'll find the above paragraph as the third one from the top if you go to the link. Kerry was out of the Navy for a year when he heard the bogus stories being told at the "Winter Soldiers Investigation". The audience before Congress was three months later in order to start his political career by smearing fellow veterans, denouncing the war and helping the commies.

[fight_truth_decay]

While this article focuses on the present Presidential Candidate, John Kerry, and how he evolved after his exceptional Service in Vietnam, it goes further to the depiction of the Vietnam Vet, as seen by the public through the portrayals of Imposters posing as combat Vets. Most of you have seen many wearing medals and telling stories of great gallantry, but in truth never served or heard a round fired in anger. They my friends are miserable human beings, and I think perhaps the honorable senator ran into a few of these low lives while young and impressionable.

[neverdem]

Now John Fn Kerry is reported to having admitted to committing war crimes in the Baltimore Sun.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-te.antiwar14feb14,0,2360661.story?coll=bal-election-headlines.