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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
As far as I can tell, they're saying that John Kerry didn't deserve his Bronze Star and that one of the wounds for which he received a Purple Heart were self-inflicted. They vaguely say that Kerry lied about Vietnam. Last I heard, Kerry didn't give him those medals. Last I heard, the US Navy gave the medals. They saying that the US Navy is giving out medals to the wrong people for the wrong reasons. They're bringing into question the entire medal granting process. If they're right, if Kerry's medals weren't earned, then shouldn't we look into all of the medals granted in Vietnam?
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I think what they're saying is more specific than that. It has to do with the self-reporting process that Kerry made liberal use of. (Ooo, bad pun.) The latest thing about how one of the Swifties got a medal, and the medal citation record contains Kerry's version of some fight (I'm not really sure of the specifics) and so discredits the Swifties' account, is being explained (or spun - I guess it depends on your viewpoint) on that basis - that Kerry himself wrote up the account, used it to aggrandize himself, and also greatly benefited from it.
So, it's not so much "all medals are suspect", as it is "all accounts authored by Kerry about Kerry are suspect."
