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(As I've mentioned, there are exactly ZERO eyewitnesses to the event for which Kerry got a Silver Star.)

Hey Hon .. I was just watching Chris Mathews and Brinkley mentioned he interview not only the guys that were on the boat with Kerry .. but also other men that knew Kerry at that time

He said the men that shared a boat with Kerry spoke highly of him

But the other men who knew him then .. did not

Does anyone know who these men were??

The names are listed below.

Information is from this site:
www.usvetdsp.com/jf_kerry.htm
www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/page2.html

Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry
Kerry Roots: 2 rich families: Forbes and Winthorpe roots.
They have a couple of pictures of him with President JFK.

In late January 1969, Kerry joined a five-man crew on swift boat No. 94 completing 18 missions over 48 days, almost all of them in the Mekong Delta.

Kerry experienced his first intense combat action on Dec. 2, 1968. He was slightly wounded on his arm, earning his first Purple Heart.

Kerry earned his second Purple Heart after sustaining a minor shrapnel wound in his left thigh on Feb. 20, 1969.

February 28, 1969: When Kerry's Patrol Craft Fast 94 received a B-40 rocket shot from shore, he hot dogged his craft beaching it in the center of the enemy position. To his surprise, an enemy soldier sprang up from a hole not ten feet from Patrol Craft 94 and fled. The boat's machine gunner hit and wounded the fleeing Viet Cong as he darted behind a hootch. The twin .50s gunner fired at the Viet Cong. He said he "laid 50 rounds" into the hootch before Kerry leaped from the boat and dashed in to administer a "coup de grace" to the wounded Viet Cong. Kerry returned with the B-40 rocket and launcher. Kerry was given a Silver Star for his actions.

Kerry and crew stand together in An Thoi, Vietnam, on February 28, 1969, after presentation of Kerry's Silver Star. He also received a Purple Heart for a minor wound. From left: Del Sandusky, John Kerry, Gene Thorson, Thomas Belodeau. Kneeling from left, Mike Medeiros, Fred Short.

On March 13, 1969, a mine detonated near Kerry's boat, slighting wounding Kerry in the right arm. He was awarded his third Purple Heart. PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) 94 crew in March 1969, from left, Gene Thorson, David Alston, Thomas Belodeau, Del Sandusky, and John Kerry.