I for one respect Senator Kerry and his tour in Vietnam. I resent his weasly way of trying to wrest medals from events that do not warrant such rewards. Here is more on that: Kerry’s Bit Of Colored Ribbon.

Senator Kerry no longer has a problem with just the 35-year-old recollections of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that are questioning his military records. He now has to deal with the United States Navy.

His focus on his awards has brought the Inquisition upon his own head and these guys can grind cement into dust.

This is a serious issue. The chief admiral of the Navy, Jeremy Michael Boorda, committed suicide over questions raised about his right to wear a Combat V by Newsweek magazine in 1996. Boorda stated in his suicide note to his sailors that the questions raised about those he wore caused him to take his life. And that was only a Bronze Star, not the Navy’s third highest decoration.

That was a tragedy. But being a man to always take an extra kick at the dead, Senator Kerry said this,

At the time, Mr. Kerry told the Boston Globe that Boorda’s conduct was “sufficient to question [Boorda’s] leadership position. …If you wind up being less than what you’re pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you.”

Out of his own mouth he brings it upon himself as well.

Besides the Silver Star with Combat “V” (which doesn’t exist, the valor is what makes it the Silver Star as opposed to a lesser award), there are other…inconsistencies on his chest.

The Navy also questioned the listing on Mr. Kerry’s Web site of a DD215 form listing four bronze campaign stars for his service in Vietnam. According to its records, the Navy credits Mr. Kerry with two campaigns. That is sufficient for the wearing of the Vietnam Service Medal for one campaign bearing one campaign star for the additional campaign —- not four

The Senator should really get his ducks in a row, especially when the author of one of his *three* citations for his Silver Star disclaims it.

Perhaps most puzzling of all is Mr. Kerry’s display of a citation for his Star signed in 1986 by the Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman. Mr. Lehman, who recently completed his service on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, finds this “[a] total mystery. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me.”

This shocking lack of detail does not bode well for a man who wants to be the leader of the free world. If such details escape him, how can anything else be trusted to him?

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Here are my medals. For what little they are, I am proud of them.



They are (in order) Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Ribbon (with star), Navy Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Medal, Overseas Deployment Ribbon (with 2 stars), Rifle Marksman Ribbon and Pistol Marksman Ribbon with Sharpshooter “S”.

I’ve got three links on the hook waiting for tonight. See you then. Have to get ready for work.

Senator Kerry has picked up an endorsement, but I think it will hurt more than help: Kerry picks up another important endorsement — Egypt’s.

Of course, this could help Bush even more. The sensible Americans will see this as foreign countries interfering in our electoral process and anybody they are for might have the foreign governments interests in mind before our own. Which is true. Senator Kerry has already alluded that he will put the security of the United States in the hands of the UN or our “allies” such as France and Germany. Countries with interests in opposition of our security.

Anyway, Egypt’s non-existent vote would be more against President Bush than for Kerry. Which is the way most Democrats are voting anyway.

This article, Put a fork in Monsieur Kerry. He’’s done. details how the Kerry campaign is imploding.

Here it is two months before the election and there’s not much to look forward to. That’s because Kerry’s campaign is collapsing faster than the Cubs do every year. Absent a colossal Bush blunder, it’s all over except for the finger pointing.

I couldn’t say it any better myself. Even if a terrorist attack were to occur between now and election day, all that would do is strengthen Bush’s win over Kerry. You don’t “be sensitive” with people who use aircraft as weapons. If the terrorists actually managed to use a nuke in the US, Kerry would still want to negotiate with them, rather than show them how we do it in the big leagues.

They brought down two towers, we brought down two governments. If they use a nuke, we will show them there is no such thing as a ‘limited’ nuclear strike.