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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (488364)	11/6/2003 5:57:57 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

From Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry website: "Kerry was given a Silver Star for an action on February 28, 1969: When Kerry's Patrol Craft Fast 94 received a B-40 rocket shot from shore, he beached his craft in the center of the enemy positions and an enemy soldier sprang up from a hole not ten feet from Patrol Craft 94 and fled. The boat's machine gunner hit and wounded the fleeing Viet Cong as he darted behind a hootch. The twin .50s gunner also fired at the Viet Cong. He said he "laid 50 rounds" into the hootch before Kerry leaped from the boat and dashed in to administer a "coup de grace" to thw wounded Viet Cong. Kerry returned with the B-40 rocket and launcher. "

To: jlallen who wrote (488364)	11/6/2003 10:39:56 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Not like popsicles. I think the rich kid had connections and, since he at least was there and in some extraordinary circumstances, got a preferential nod that was at least due many who did not receive it. I think what we have here is a brave and very lucky guy who got medals because he needed a bandaid three times and whose rewards came to him a bit easier than they did to his contemporaries. But I guess we'll never really know, since Kerry refuses to allow us to look at his records.