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 From: patriot@americans.biz 
  
 rizvioct@optonline.net wrote: 
  
 > On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 14:22:36 -0600, General Sam 
 >  wrote: 
 > 
 > Instead of posting your childish clap trap 
  
 Pffffttt! 
  
 Talon News 
 April 27, 2004 
  
 WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Likely Democratic presidential nominee John 
 F. Kerry's claim that he has never discarded medals that he earned after 
 returning from the Vietnam War was refuted by a televised interview with 
 the Massachusetts senator from November 1971 which was released to the 
 public by ABC News on Monday. 
  
 Kerry has been asked on the presidential campaign trail whether, during 
 a Vietnam Veterans Against The War protest he led on April 23, 1971 at 
 the Capitol, he threw his own military medals over the fence. Kerry has 
 stated repeatedly that he never discarded his own medals. 
  
 "I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them," Kerry expressed to 
 ABC's Peter Jennings in December 2003, admitting that he threw away 
 ribbons and medals from other anti-war veterans who were unable to be at 
 the protest, but not his own medals. 
  
 He even told Jennings at the time that the stories about him throwing 
 his medals were simply a "myth" designed by the Republican Party to 
 taint his war record. 
  
 However, in a November 6, 1971 interview on a show called "Viewpoints" 
 on WRC-TV in Washington, DC, Kerry is recorded as saying he returned up 
 to nine of the medals he had earned for his service as a Navy lieutenant 
 in Vietnam. 
  
 "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals," Kerry 
 said in the interview released by ABC News. 
  
 He added in the interview that the veterans who participated in the 
 anti-war demonstrations "decided to give them back to their country" 
 during the protest rally. 
  
 When he was asked in the 1971 interview about the Bronze Star, Silver 
 Star, and three Purple Hearts, Kerry explained that he had returned them 
 as well. 
  
 "Well, and above that, [I] gave back the others," he explained. 
  
 This is a direct contradiction to what Kerry told the Los Angeles Times 
 on Friday when he exclaims that he "never ever implied that" he returned 
 his medals to protest the war. 
  
 http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/april/0427_kerry_medals.shtml 
  
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