[martin_fierro]

Found this reference:

Durkin was more aggressive, running full-page newspaper ads with "CENSORED" splashed across them after failing to win permission to reprint the cover of Kerry's 1971 book, "The New Soldier," featuring Vietnam veterans, in an Iwo Jima-like pose, except hoisting a US flag flying upside down, a sign of distress.

but no photo.

[4mycountry]

foxhole ping

[cmsgop]

[martin_fierro]

Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow.

[VOA]

John Kerry wore the flag on the seat of his pants one time during a protest he joined
in on after his return from Vietnam, or at least so the Boston Globe claims.

For leads, try
1. The Boston Globe; maybe if you pretend to be a 50's-something anti-Vietnam
war protestor wanting a momento from your "glory days", you might get some help.
2. Sorry I can't remember the name, but isn't there a more conservative newspaper in
Boston (more conservative than The Globe)?
3. The office of any elected Republican in Massachussetts (don't expect any
to be too enthused about touching this one with the proverbial ten-foot pole).
4. Get a constituent to call the good Senator's office. Try to get a cofirm or deny
statement, preferably in a letter.
Just in case you do track down a copy of a photo that would reveal any sort
of denial to be a fib.

[vikingchick]

Is this it? It's the cover of that book. (on ebay)

[Mark Turbo]

It's not what you're looking for, but I did find this picture of a clown and some guy with a red nose wearing a flag T-shirt:

[Chummy]

..still searching, but how about this for Mom (and her liberal acquaintances)?

"...Heard of Watergate? Get ready for Lowellgate.

"On Sept. 18, 1972, the evening before the primary election during his second attempt for Congress, Kerry's brother Cameron and one Thomas Vallely, both part of his current campaign team, were arrested by Lowell police at 1:40 a.m. and charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny. The two were apprehended in the basement of a building whose door had been forced open, police said. It housed the headquarters of candidate DiFruscia. The Watergate scandal was making headlines at this time, and it was called the Lowell Watergate.

"'They wanted to sever my telephone lines,' DiFruscia said recently. Had those lines been cut, Kerry's opponent would not have been able to telephone supporters on Election Day to get out the vote and coordinate poll watchers, vital roles in a close election. 'I do not know if they wanted to break into my office,' says DiFruscia today. At the time he said, 'All my IBM cards and the list of my voter identification in the greater Lowell area are in my headquarters.'

"Cameron and Vallely, along with David Thorne, who was Kerry's campaign manager at the time and has been close to him since they attended Yale together, did not deny the two entered the building in which they were captured. They said at the time they were in the cellar of the building to check their own telephone lines because they had received an anonymous call warning they would be cut.

"This reporter heard an allegation that another congressional candidate placed the alleged anonymous call, which was denied. But if the Kerry campaign was concerned about someone breaking and entering to cut off its telephone service, why didn't they just call the police? Why break the law? And what does any of this say about Kerry's mind-set? Kerry campaign officials did not answer important Lowellgate questions.

"The case was transferred to superior court and continued without a finding, where it was dismissed about a year later. But since it happened at the last minute, and Kerry won the primary but went on to lose the general election, this ugly business did not receive intense media scrutiny. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were busy investigating another break-in...."

Source: http://www.insightmag.com/news/455080.html

[RonDog]

ping

[Intolerant in NJ]

Having safely completed his own tour of duty in Vietnam and returned to the US, John Kerry testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 about what a terrible "mistake" our involvement in Vietnam was - "we feel because of what threatens this country, not the reds, but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out"...makes me wonder why Kerry now seems so proud of his service during the war...and how many US troops died because ultimately morale was devastated by turncoats like him.....

[SGCOS]

I need Freerepublic help finding a picture of John Kerry

Wipe your butt and run it through a scanner.

Hope that helps!