New Navy Document Challenges Kerrys Combat Valor - Silver Star with Combat V signature forged?

Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004 10:05 a.m. EDT

New Navy Document Challenges Kerry's Combat Valor http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/15/ 100709.shtml

In the midst of a formal Navy investigation into whether Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam war decorations had been falsified, a new document has surfaced that casts doubt on his claim that he acted with valor in the action that earned him a Silver Star with Combat V.

Kerry won the Silver Star after claiming he single-handedly shot a Vietcong guerilla with a loaded rocket launcher while patrolling the Mekong Delta.

But the Navy after action report, obtained Tuesday by syndicated TV commentator Mark Hyman of 'The Point,' states that he merely chased down a lone, wounded enemy who was running away and shot him.

In 1996, Kerry Swiftboat mate Thomas Bellodeau challenged the top Democrat's account, revealing that he fired the first shot that hit the VC. Only then did Kerry hunt the wounded enemy down and finish him off behind a hut.

You know, I shot that guy,' Bellodeau told the Boston Globe. 'He jumped up, he looked right at me, I looked at him. You could tell he was trying to decide whether to shoot or not. I expected the guy on Kerry's boat with the twin 50s to blast him, but he couldn't depress the guns far enough. We were up on the bank.'

Bellodeau died in 1997 and Kerry spoke at his funeral - but the presidential candidate has never corrected the record that gives him credit for Bellodeau's act of bravery.

John O'Neill, a leader of the Swiftvets running anti-Kerry TV ads, told the New York Post that the document uncovered by Hyman shows Kerry 'was pursuing a wounded man and not charging alone into superior numbers and intense fire,' as his Silver Star citation claims.

The Silver Star with Combat V citation that appears on Kerry's campaign web site bears the signature of former Navy Secretary John Lehman. But Lehman said two weeks ago that he never signed the Kerry award, raising questions about whether his signature had been forged.

Reacting to Lehman's comments, a Navy spokesman told the Chicago Sun-Times that the service has never issued a Silver Star with Combat V to

Yes, I saw professional right wing serial liar Mark Hyman lie about this outright on my NBC news affiliate. The report specifically states that the VC was carrying a rocket launcher with one round (a round that would have sent Kerry's boat to the bottom.)

Kerry already acknowledged the guy was wounded. In short, no one has anything, thanks for playing. lol

Quite a different story than the romantic version Kerry concocted in his documentary. Real life is never as Hollywood or Liberals would have us believe.

We have the character of a man who would crow about a 30 year old part of his commi loving life than crow about his resent 20 year old political life. A man who isn't so proud of his Senate record so as to run on it.

Kerry is from Taxxachusetts, a state that got it's kick name from Kerry and Teddy, the most Liberal Socialists in Congress.

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Real life is never as Hollywood or Liberals would have us

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Poor sad little lying CB - it's all he has left. Any vicious rumor or partisan smear will do, it doesn't matter if it's made up by Osama himself.

Why did 99% of the Swift Boat crew tell a different story of their experience with Kerry? Are they all conspirators?

What has Kerry said of his Senate record to demonstrate sound leadership?

What did Kerry say during the DNC convention about his Senate record? That would have been the time to go down memory lane.

My in-laws are from Attleboro Massachusetts, I am from Florida. Two whole families of in-laws have moved down just to escape the high cost of living that Teddy and Johnny have yoked them with.

That is no lie.

I related a true story, personal to tax payers, not a story from the media. Let's hear you tell a story of ANY family moving into Taxxachusets for the economic Shangri-La.