SwiftVets.com

SERVED_USMC · Seaman Recruit Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

Perhaps I missed a change in Kerry’s position.

While Kerry once may have had medals and decorations and Navy records may still indicate that is or was the case, the truth is Kerry gave them back. by his own admission, in Nov 71. Fairly earned or deserved is a different question.

As an adult and a Naval officer, he had the right to give his medals and decorations back as he chose to do during that time. However, for his minions to run around claiming he has these medals and decorations is simply not true. I have not heard anyone challenge this fact.

If I missed this flip flop in his position please let me know. When did he go back and reclaim the medals and decorations he rejected and threw away? It seems to me, if a person really earned the medals and decoration its unlikely that he would throw them away so easily.

If Kerry had a change in this position I never heard him say he had flipped on his 1971 position nor have I heard any of his defenders speak to this fact.

Geano · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

With all respect, he flip-flops so much no one can be sure of what he said when he said it or what he meant when he said or didn't say what we just thought we heard.

First he said he threw his medals at Dewey Canyon II, then he said he didn't, he threw his ribbons...then he said he threw some medals somebody had given him, but not his medals, then he said when asked how many, he didn't know, 5, 7, 8 or nine...some number...he is supposed to have the medals "on display" in his home....the links are buried in the posts throughout this site... .

I don't think he knows or remembers for sure anymore, but it doesn't matter, because the circumstances that generated the awards (that he 'gave back' or didn't give back) are being closely scrutinized with referencing to new documentation from Navy Archives.

Stick around....this is fun.
_________________
MSM Lead Nov 3 2004 "Kerry Oval Office Hopes killed by 10,000 Mice..."
Candidate had declared mice "only a nuisance".
States they "moved too Swiftly"....

Stevie · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject:

and I read that Kerry 'medals' are displayed in his senate office.... but with Kerry it's probably another flip - flop....

or he carries them back and forth with him.... in case he runs into someone who DIDN'T know he served in Vietnam and got medals.... he can pull them out and show them!

interesting that he threw them away ..... but still has them.... maybe he had them glued to a piece of elastic...... so they'd come bouncing back to him?
_________________
Stevie
Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should
be arrested, exiled or hanged.

Geano · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject:

Weaponeer · Seaman Recruit Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 28

I don't think it really matters if he threw away medals or ribbons..

The point is he threw them away/gave them back.. In my mind he no longer has claim to the awards he threw away, and now is using those very awards for political gain.

I find it odd that these awards had been used as a political statement by Kerry in 71, and now he is using them again for politics in 2004.

Earned or not... He gave them back!

RMalloy · PO3 Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 280

USMC - I think this is true too: