Out of all the stories that have hounded Kerry on the campaign trail, the issue of whether he threw away his ribbons or his medals is the most mendacious. Last week the media demanded to view Kerrys military records. The reason for the urgency was that Grant W. Hibbard, a lieutenant commander during Kerrys swift boat days in Vietnam, asserted that Kerrys first Purple Heart was undeserved. According to Hibbard, Kerry had a tiny scratch. The Boston Globe quoted him as saying, Ive had thorns from a rose that were worse. Over 35 years after the fact, Hibbard, a Republican, was trying to belittle, embarrass and malign Kerry.
But the release of Kerrys war record put an end to the flap. Stuck in the middle of released documents was an evaluation of Kerry by Hibbard, filled out two weeks after he supposedly told Kerry he didnt deserve a Purple Heart. Nowhere in Hibbards evaluation did he mention any problem with Kerry over Kerrys winning a Purple Heart. In fact, Hibbard wrote that Kerry was one of the best sailors he knew in three categories initiative, cooperation and personal behavior. Why, if he thought Kerry was trying to finagle a Purple Heart, did he give him such high marks for personal behavior? As Katherine Q. Seelye reported in the New York Times once the document was released, Hibbard went underground, unwilling to grant interviews, hiding from the press in his retirement home in Florida. The story went away.
http://www.salon.com/2004/04/28/medals/
I read it. Which part are you saying is false?
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Testimony
The country doesn't know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence, and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history; men who have returned With a sense of anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has yet grasped.
A lot of guys, 60, 80 percent stay stoned 24 hours a day just to get through the Vietnam -
and every word is true you evil fuck
my brother was drafted
they told him to go home because during boot he would throw a gun to the ground every time they tried to force him to carry one
he did everything they asked him to do
but refused to carry a gun
I known you wish he went and got killed
sorry to disappoint your evil ass
here's something just from the introduction.....
How is that false?
How is that false? It's always the chickenhawks and armchair generals sending young men off to fight and die for dubious reasons.
Kerry, who actually was in Vietnam, stated that guys stayed stoned and you, who weren't, call it a lie.![]()
so is it just you or do all liberals believe that every one of the millions of men and women who have been in the military are monsters?.....if I were as warped as you are I would hope someone would just kill me......
If you think I said every one of the millions in the military were monsters you should be killed for your ignorance.
a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence
so is it just you or do all liberals believe that every one of the millions of men and women who have been in the military are monsters?.....if I were as warped as you are I would hope someone would just kill me......
Pastor Pimp is a monster.
and BucKKKle is a racist klansman like his entire family.......
you refuse to condemn your mother and father for raising you in the klan......you are a bad, bad man, BucKKKle.....All you do with that line is reinforce your reputation as a lyin' Pimp.
Everyone here knows that you are the racist sympathizer who will never say a bad word about you fellow republican racists.
LOL.
didn't you specifically say that this statement was true?....
you refuse to condemn your mother and father for raising you in the klan......you are a bad, bad man, BucKKKle.....