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Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004 12:08 a.m. EDT
Navy Challenging Kerry's Medals The United States Navy is challenging the authenticity of Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam War medals, in a development that could prove to be the most damaging yet to the embattled Democrat's presidential campaign.
A Navy spokesman is calling Kerry's Silver Star citation with Combat V "incorrect" as it appears on his campaign Web site, explaining in an interview with Chicago Sun-Times reporter Thomas Lipscomb that the Navy has never issued a Combat V at any time for the Silver Star.
The Navy also is questioning the listing on Kerry’s Web site of four bronze campaign stars for his service in Vietnam. The official naval record credits Kerry with just two Vietnam campaigns.
"That is sufficient for the wearing of the Vietnam Service Medal for one campaign bearing one campaign star for the additional campaign — not four," reports Lipscomb in today's New York Sun.
Kerry's campaign has repeatedly cited the Navy as the ultimate authority on the candidate's war record, saying the Navy wouldn't have awarded him medals he didn't deserve.
But with the Navy now publicly challenging Kerry's decorations, that defense has been rendered inoperative.
Noting that Kerry has refused to authorize the release of his full military records, the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch called on Kerry this week to remove any questionable citations from his Web site pending a formal investigation by the Navy.
"It is to your best interest to have your record in good order," Gen. Thomas Wilkerson, the president of the U.S. Naval Ins ute, told Lipscomb. "If it is wrong, you are accountable. And if you use it to advance your career, it is even more important.”
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This would be more interesting if it wasn't a routine check by the Navy brought about by a lawsuit filed by the group Judicial Watch. They did the same thing in 2000. and found nothing. I don't expect anything to come of this either.
By the way, I wonder why they aren't questioning the validity of the medals worn by W. for his guard service. He is rumored to have not earned them.
Maybe because Bush has never based his campaign on his medals.
Go ahead; file a complaint. That is, after all, how investigations are begun."By the way, I wonder why they aren't questioning the validity of the medals worn by W. for his guard service. He is rumored to have not earned them."
Come on Dan,
He's claiming an award that NO ONE in the history of the Navy has been awarded.
Blah blah blah this would be more interesting if blah blah freakin' blah.
Dan bites the dust AGAIN !
www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14743
Excerpt:
The presence of the combat “V” with Kerry’s Silver Star on his DD 214 raises two extremely disquieting questions. How did the unauthorized “V” get there, and why has Kerry allowed it to remain?
The first question should not be taken lightly because we are talking about possible federal crimes. We are talking about the possibility of a forged official do ent. We are talking, as well, about le 18, United States Code, Section 1001, which states: “[W]hoever, in any manner within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the United States, knowingly and willfully . . . makes or uses any false writing or do ent knowing the same to contain any materially false, fic ious, or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined under this le or imprisoned not more than 5 years or both.”
OUCH!!!Dan bites the dust AGAIN !
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