His puppets might want to check their data.
Firstly, he isn’t remotely a highly decorated veteran.
Secondly, his decorations (1 SS, 1 BS, 3 PH) were controversial, since Kerry, as the lieutenant (the CO for the boat), he was responsible for the after action reports. Many of his swift boat comrades testified that he embellished (”lied” for those out in Rio Linda) the reports for which he put in the recommendations for himself.
Let’s not forget John Kerry through his fellow servicemen under the bus as part of his political aspirations. Some of us aren’t going to forget that.
You want a highly decorated hero, go with Colonel David Hackworth. His service was extraordinary. Here is the Wikipedia link to his bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hackworth
Not to diminish Col. Hackworth, but I’ll go with Audie Murphy…