SwiftVets.com

[RMalloy]

Found article on Kerry from 1971 - Kerry's Credibility Gap
Great Article, gives some insight into Kerry's actvities surrounding
his Winter Soldier Testimony, along with that of Melville Stephens,
the other Swiftvet who testified along with Kerry.

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Kerry quit Viet Nam in March 1968, as was his right as a three-times-wounded serviceman. He also became an admiral's aide -- in New York. Then he left the Navy to run for Congress but withdrew from the race in favor of the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, a Catholic anti-war priest who was elected last November.

Friends who talked to Kerry said he was not visibly upset about Viet Nam when he first began thinking of running for office. "I thought of him as a rather normal Vet," one said, "glad to be out but not terribly up tight over the war."

Another to whom Kerry talked about running for office described him as "a very charismatic fellow looking for a good issue."


www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2979 - 30k -[/quote]

[RMalloy]

This article reinforces that John Kerry used the VVAW as his
"good issue" to run for office. His friends never saw a distraught
Vet returning from Vietnam. It is written just one month after he
"testified" yet the author writes he had help from a Kennedy speechwriter,
that he never slept at the protest, that he DID NOT THROW HIS MEDALS
over the Gate.

[Misty]

Well, we knew he was an opportunistic fraud.

Thanks for the article.
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Misty
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Dad was in the Navy Pacific Fleet
Brother was on the USS Regulus - Vietnam
Husband was AirForce 3rd (34th) Tactical Fighter Wing - Security Police Bien Hoa Vietnam