Chicago Sun-Times: Plot thickens after checking [Kerry's] records. I wonder what else we'd learn if Kerry released the remaining hundred or so pages of his Navy records in addition to the six pages we have now.
Update: It gets stranger! His silver star citation was edited 3 times (including the original citation), which is highly unusual. Even more highly unusual is that it was edited during the Reagan administration, more than a decade after it was first issued. But now, former Navy Secretary John Lehman, whose signature was on the third edit, now says it's a total mystery to him how his signature got on it.
In Kerry's defense, maybe Lehman's memory is faulty. But I doubt that given that changing an award citation so many years after the fact is so unusual that he would have had to have a big reason to change it and he would have been likely to remember it. However, what's also strange is that Kerry claims his silver star has a "combat V", yet no silver star with combat V was ever issued by the Navy.
Saturday, August 28, 2004
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