The incredible shrinking medals of Lt. John Kerry

Star Newspapers (Chicago) ^ | Sunday, May 9, 2004 | Michael J. Bowers Star columnist

[Chi-townChief]

On Fox News this morning, I saw the tape of Teresa the Ketchup Queen attacking Vice President Cheney as unpatriotic. Not a pretty sight.

[Chi-townChief]

CHICAGOLAND PING (nice job as always, Mike)

[lady lawyer]

what about those "action" pictures of himself that he had taken after the war and has used in his TV commercials? When did that happen? Did he do it simultaneously with protesting the war, so he could later exploit his service? Has there ever been any information posted here about those pictures?

[ride the whirlwind]

This is not bravery. This is cheap theater — opportunistic, hypocritical and deceitful.

This writer certainly has a way with words! Good opinion piece. Will it get very wide distribution in the Chicago area?

[atomicpossum]

what about those "action" pictures of himself that he had taken after the war and has used in his TV commercials?

And does he note in the commercial that these are not 'actual footage,' or is there ground to be gained pointing out that these are staged shots being passed off as real?

[VRW Conspirator]

Kerry is AWOL on the truth!

[BillyCrockett]

www.WinterSoldier.com Everything about sKerry's anti-war past. Best on the web.

[Osage Orange]

From the piece:

"The metal fragment measured about 1 centimeter in length and was about 2 or 3 millimeters in diameter." "

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Reference.....for the metric impaired.

One inch is equal to 2.54cm....So Mr. Ketchup's "frag"ment was less than 1/2 inch in length..and about the width of the space betweenthe two periods at the end of this sentence..

So basically about half a tooth pick....

FRegards,

[SandRat]

I think it's safe to say that the VAST majority of the veterans, many of whom are military retirees, who are here in FreeRepublic regard JFK as a medal hound. A dangerous breed of dog that in the quest for his next bone will get you killed avoid being assigned to his unit at all costs.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Effin' served in the Navy to preserve his political viability.

[bitt]

"what about those "action" pictures of himself that he had taken after the war and has used in his TV commercials? When did that happen? ... Has there ever been any information posted here about those pictures?"

who took the video? While he was still stationed there? (4 months?) did he just get dressed up one day and after breakfast, go in some convenient jungle adjacent to the headquarters building and walk around while a buddy filmed him? I could have filmed the same scenes dressed up and walking around in Florida ...
there has to be more info about this video somewhere...

[EggsAckley]

I'd like to know about those bogus pictures too. Kerry is a cheese puff! Full of air and very cheesy.

[DakotaGator]

Did he fight simply to decorate his resume?

Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner!

[Reactionary]

"He earned his Silver Star on Feb. 28, 1969, when the Viet Cong fired a B-40 rocket at his boat. Kerry's bow gunner knocked down the enemy with fire from his twin .50-caliber machine guns."

"But the man got back up and started running away. Kerry jumped out of his boat, chased him down and finished him off."

I'm sure all sort of people get up after being hit with a .50 caliber machinegun. The idiot comedy that is Kerry's war record continues.

[sd-joe]

>>"what about those "action" pictures of himself" <<

I read somewhere that he took a camera and went back to the same place and "re-created" the scene. I believe he did this shortly after the "action".

[genghis]

Just a couple of questions
1- when are ALL the military records( including all the fitness reports) going to be made public?
2-Was he proud of his service in Vietnam?
If yes, why did he throw the medals away?
Was he proud of the atrocities he committed?

[cpdiii]

The matter of Lt. William Calley notwithstanding, few believed many of our soldiers were heinous criminals.

What should also be noted is who stopped further killing. It was other Americans whom landed in choppers and drew arms on Calley's troops. Calley was an aberration. The Americans that stopped the killing are the norm.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Back then, military service of one form of another was REQUIRED to be president. Let's look at Klintoon's predecessors:

Hoover: In charge of US famine relief in Europe after World War I
FDR: Assistant Sec'y of the Navy, World War I
Truman: Army Captain, World War I
Ike: Well we know about him
Kennedy: PT 109 etc.
Johnson: Served in WWII
Nixon: Same
Ford Same
Carter: WWII era West Point grad, Navy officer
Reagan: Served during WWII
Bush I: Pilot, WWII

So when Kerry decided to run for president (as Gore did) when he was 11 years old, he knew that miltary service, especially in a shooting war, was a prerequiste. Getting a few medals, even better. IMO, that's the only reason he went to Vietnam.

[Chi-townChief]

"This writer certainly has a way with words!"

Mr. Bowers is one of our very own Freepers. But the circulation of the Star is limited to the far south side and south and southwest 'burbs.

[Eala]

According to Kerry, our soldiers "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."