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carpro
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 Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject: KERRY AND HIS DRAFT BOARD |
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We all know that Kerry likes to brag that he joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Harvard through his eagerness to do his duty.
Turns out he wasn't as eager as he would like everyone to believe.
A story was written in the Harvard Crimson 2-18-70 that Kerry approached his draft board for permission to study in Paris. The draft board refused and then Kerry joined the Navy.
He was approached then with this story before release and did not deny it.
Recently the author was checked with. He stands by his story. |
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waltjones
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 12:32 am Post subject: Re: Kerry's draft board |
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That would explain something that's been puzzling me. He's on record at college as speaking against the Vietnam war, and then he later volunteers? Hmm .....
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The bandit
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:25 am Post subject: |
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In Kerry's own words:
"I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."
Source: Boston Globe |
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