Does it really matter? 1) Kerry volunteered to go to Vietnam and to serve in one of the most dangerous of buttignments; 2) He won both the Silver and Bronze stars, and the navy tends to look into these things closely--but even if the Navy was wrong, it is unlikely to have been wrong on BOTH medals; 3) He has shrapnel in his body to this day, as the New York Times reported recently based on viewing Kerry's medical records, which includes an MRI scan. So maybe Kerry was only as much a hero as the others who were there. That should be enough. It is true that he left Vietnam after four months, in part because of his wounds, but by that time he may have realized that he was fighting for a war that he did not believe in. Even if he left Vietnam earlier than he should have, that is outweighed by his volunteering to go there in the first place.
In contrast, consider an administration that says that the Iraquis will welcome Americans with open arms and not fight them. Or, consider an administration that tells the works on the Ground Zero site that the air quality was just fine, but it wasn't and now many of those workers have serious medical problems.
Republicans Fight to Suppress the Black VoteJim Crow is alive and well in the Republican Party: --quote Any means necessary In the 60s, police dogs and billy clubs kept black Americans from the polls. Today's methods are...
Or even, so simple, a vice president who says that "I've never met you before today," yet it can be show easily with pictures that the two people met several times before that day. All these are lies by adults, who should be responsible for their actions.