For anyone who hasn't heard this story:
AND SPEAKING OF JOHN KERRY . . .
I've run across this story before, but I still find it utterly and completely outrageous. It has to do with a protest ceremony at the Capitol against the Vietnam War, where a number of veterans returned their medals:
Newspaper accounts described Kerry throwing his own medals, and in a speech immediately afterward to the veterans, Kerry said: "This admninistration forced us to return our medals...These leaders denied us the integrity those symbols supposedly gave our lives.''
But as it later turned out, the medals Kerry threw were not his own. Since that fact was revealed by the Wall Street Journal in 1984, it has dogged Kerry. It appears as a throwaway line in nearly every profile of the senator, usually used to paint him as a phony. In his recent interview with the Globe, Kerry added a new twist.
He said that the two sets of medals he threw had been handed to him by a wounded veteran in a New York VA hospital and by a World War II veteran from Lincoln, Mass., whom he'd met at a fundraiser. Kerry says he can't remember their names. While he did not throw his own medals (they remain tucked away in a desk at his home in Boston), Kerry said he did throw the ribbons on his uniform that symbolized the medals he had earned. Asked why he didn't bring his own medals to throw since it was planned weeks in advance, Kerry said it was because he "didn't have time to go home (to New York) and get them.''
I respect John Kerry for fighting for his country, and have said so many times. But this act was despicable in the extreme. There are no words to describe my contempt.
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