It depends on the meaning of the word “medals”
JOHN KERRY, 1971:
Asked about the anti-war veterans who threw their medals away, Kerry said “they decided to give them back to their country. I gave back, I can’t remember, 6, 7, 8, 9 medals…”
When asked if he gave back the Bronze Star, Silver Star and three Purple Hearts he was awarded for combat duty as a Navy lieutenant in Vietnam. “Well, and above that, [I] gave back the others,” he said.
[b]JOHN KERRY, 2004[/b]
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times last Friday, John Kerry said, “I never ever implied that I did it, ” responding to the question of whether he threw away his medals in protest.
“I’m proud of my medals. I always was proud of them,” he told Jennings in December, adding that he had only thrown away his “ribbons” and the medals of two other veterans who could not attend the protest.
Even funnier is that I went to JohnKerry.com this weekend and captured the screen from his blog that specificallly states he threw his “ribbons” (and they italicized it for emphasis), but they’ve since updated the page to make it look more in line with what he said in 1971…. someone’s busted….
here are the two captures side by side, notice the dates:
oopsie….
