[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?

[VRW Conspirator]

Kerry is AWOL on the truth!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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."

[middie]

This post and the several encouraging posts acommpanying it are pure, unadulterated and unrelenting lunacy individually and collectively. This same unsavory tactic was employed against Senator McCain during his challenge to Gov. Bush in the 2000 primary. The awarding of a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and most emphatically, the Silver Star is each governed by criteria set out in regulation and must be authenticated up the command chain.

Each of these egregiously unseemly posts and the editorial piece does more harm than good to the purpose for which it is offered. The Navy 0-3 was wounded and conducted himself with the courage expected of an officer leading other men into battle. Condemnation 34 years later of what was acknowledged at the time of the event as courageous leadership and bravery is a tacit admission that there is a lack of real issues on which to challenge the candidate. It also raises the spectre that these posters will stop at nothing in their fervent attempt to do the obvious.

[wattsup]

To me, as a Disabled Vet, I say that once F'in Kerry threw his (or anyone's) medals over the fence those medals or ribbons represented his earned medals. Kerry made the statement that he gave the medals back to the Government. By his own words he no longer possesses those medals that were earned by committing atrocities. Therefore I believe he has forfeited his right to claim that he earned them in battle and cannot speak about them as his.

[tdadams]

For one thing, I'm puzzled he served in Vietnam just four months. Did he fight simply to decorate his resume?

This seems to be a natural conclusion, one that many people are coming to simultaneously.

[foreshadowed at waco]

I decided that John F***in' Kerry was a liar way before the medal controversy...it was when he called Vietnam Nixon's War...how convenient...he leaves JFK and LBJ, the 2 Democratic presidents that got us involved in Vietnam...he's a manipulator of the truth just like BJ Clinton...slimeball to the max.

[hattend]

BTTT

[hosepipe]

John Kerry is Al Sharpton with a honky horn..

[searchandrecovery]

So Kerry served in Vietnam - who knew? Wow, four whole months, most of the time trying to get out. Gets a Purple Heart for getting a 1/4" cut. Then throws away his ribbons over a fence in protest. You'd think he'd want to bury his "service record", not brag about it.

Almost Clintonian in that he believes he can spin lies any way he wants to without getting caught.

[Seadog Bytes]

I keep hearing Kerry referred to as "Lt. John Kerry" (Rank=O3) (...like in the above article), but I thought he was only a Lt.(jg) (Rank=O2)

Does anybody know whether Kerry was ever actually promoted to Lt.("O3"), or is this all just more Kerry-style military puffery???

Just wondering.

[bootyist-monk]

Is there any way to find out how many other servicemen took the the 3 Purple Hearts and out option during the Vietnam War? I heard John O'Neill say that there is no record, nor could any of the other vets remember, anyone else from their unit getting out early using this.