Posted on 08/27/2004 4:41:58 AM PDT by kristinn
Got to put this to bed.
The Silver Star is an award for valor. It does not require a "V Device". It is NEVER issued "V Device".
The "V Device" is used in conjunction with other awards (such as the Bronze Star or Air Medal) that can be given either for Valor or Meritorious Achievement.
In those cases where an award can be given for either valor or meritorious achievement, the "V Device" is issued with the valorous award to distinguish it from the meritorious achievement award.
BTW, for those who my not be familiar with one, it is called a "V Device" because the recipient is enabled to attach a "V" to the ribbon or medal when worn.
Yep.
See this group of Swift Boats patrolling together? They are NOT SERVING together!!! Only the ones on the SAME BOAT are serving together! Each group of personnel on each boat know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the personnel on the other boat, PERIOD !! If they say they do, they are Republican LIARS !! Unless the one talking is a DemocRAT. Then he is telling the truth, of course.
Kerry didn't bother to attend any reserve meetings once he got back from Vietnam. Almost two years of no shows. If his military records get released, his ass is in a sling.
Terrific article, kristinn. But the source link doesn't display the original.
It's the Kerry campaign trying to breathe.
(Northern) NJ FREEPERS
If you live anywhere near Wayne (Passaic County) and you have not yet been able to find a copy of the "Unfit for Command" book...go to the Wayne Hills Mall (fka "Meyer Brothers Mall"). There is a Waldon Books store there that has a bunch of copies of this book. I bought mine tonight ($27.00).
Tom Lipscomb was a very active Freeper who left these boards about 3 years ago. He was at the March for Justice. He is also a relative of George Washington.
Obviously the officer's name was not John Kerry.
Kerry does, and Kerry stands silent while his minions wave his alleged heroism for the public to see. Kerry does not display the humility that heroes naturally possess. Kerry does not demand that those who speak in his name cease and desist from slandering those who served honorably and with esprit d'corp.
Kerry is a hollow man.
Kerry is "all hat, no cattle".
Thanks for the info.
From what I've read about SKerry it isn't his lies, his duplicity, his liberalism or communist leanings. What scare the heck out of me is his sheer stupidity.
The latest Dem attack is to
(a) shift the converstion to Bush and his "dodging" with his national guard service, and
(b) accuse the accuser of questioning ALL medal recipients and suggesting that they need to be looked at too.
IOW
(a) Bush wasnt even IN Viet Nam, so you should talk (false argument) and
(b) IF Kerry's medals arent legit, neither are a lot of others, because (all together now) EVERYBODY DID IT (the age old Clinton/Democrat response when they have no response).
The easy counter-response is
(a) who first brought up Kerry's military record and why? and
(b) who first brought up Bush's military record and why?
The who is the same, and the why tells you alot about their motives.
If they keep dragging out the failed counter-arguments about Bush missing guard service, these new Kerry revelations will not only bite them in the @$$, it will eat their @$$ !
BUMP
With all that's come out(and still more to come out)on Kerry, what do you think GWB's chances are to win NJ? BTW, any thing new on your governor? Thanks.
I was going to say that this was questioned more than once on FR ...I was one of them
GW showed each and every paycheck, plus his superiors said he never was AWOL. But I heard a liberal RAT, Jim Brody, say on the radio, WRKO, last week, that Bush was drunk and AWOL. Then, a few days later, the charge had changed to cocaine use. Brody didn't claim that, I saw it somewhere else. They're so desperate, they're throwing everything at Bush but the kitchen sink. He hired a P.I. to dig up dirt on the Swifties. We can look forward to more of the same, only worse. Get the spotlight off Kerry, change the subject somehow. This won't work because the Swift Boat vets aren't running for President, and my God, if you hear them on the radio or see them on tv or their ad, the truth absolutely shines. You know what they say is what happened. No fancy Yale baloney...despite O'Neill's fantastic background at U.Texas -- first in his class,and clerking for the Supreme Court...every word clear as a bell. Every fact rings true. Against that, Kerry's an empty suit. Nothing but lies. Dragging Cleland and Rasmussen to Crawford the other day for that sleazy photo op was a loser idea. A ten year old could have come up with something better, but they say Kerry's running the show now, and if so, this is how his mind works.
To hell with the drip, drip, drip.....
I'm waiting for the jugular slash and splash....
Semper Fi
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