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To: jim-thompson who wrote (54945)	9/8/2004 12:03:29 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

John Hawkins: I’m sure you have heard about this. There are some really strange things going on with John Kerry's Silver Star. It has been rewritten 3 times and the man whose name is on the third one, John Lehman said he "never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me." Also, Kerry has been claiming to have a Silver Star with Valor. Finally, after the Navy pointed out that there is no such thing, the Kerry camp is saying it's just a typo. Any thoughts on this because it seems more than a bit strange? John O'Neill: Kerry makes a lot of typos but they are always in one direction. For example, on his website he claimed to captain PCF-94 in a savage battle on January 29, 1969. He wasn’t even on board the boat and wasn’t present and when that was pointed out, he finally deleted it. It was a totally different guy, Lieutenant Peck, who was wounded there. With respect to the over-claiming of medals my understanding is he has too many campaign stars, he shows the “V” with valor, and he has re-written over and over again his citations to make them more and more glorious as the years roll on and so on and further and further removed from the original actions. This is a process that began in Vietnam with the very first report that he prepared because his reports repeatedly present occasions in which nothing serious occurred or even occasions in which he participated in a disaster as tremendous victories.