The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 18, May 2, 2004, Article 14

KERRY MEDALS IN THE NEWS

  Dave Bowers sent us a copy of an article about the brouhaha
  over U.S. Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam
  war medals:

  "At issue is Kerry's participation in a 1971 protest at which
  several veterans discarded their medals in protest of the
  Vietnam War.

  Kerry threw away the ribbons from his medals, along with
  the actual medals of two veterans who were not able to attend
  the ceremony, according to the candidate's Web site.

  Karen Hughes, a campaign adviser to President Bush,
  described herself as "very troubled" by the fact that Kerry
  only throw away his ribbons -- not the medals themselves.

  "He only pretended to throw his," she charged Sunday..."

  "Kerry has said he did not throw away his own medals
  because he did not have them with him."

  To read the full article, see: Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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