This page is devoted entirely to John Kerry - to exposing the truth about him. Don't shut your eyes or roll up and die because you don't want to hear it. You need to hear it. If you don't, very well. that's your problem. But you are also horribly uninformed and ignorant of the facts.

You decide for yourself. I think John Kerry's shipmates, fellow veterans, commanding officers and medics can speak for themselves. And even without them, he proves everything I want you to know about him by his own contradictory words.

Quite frankly, he should be rotting in a North Vietnamese jail right now. Plain and simple. Let's proceed, shall we?

(Note:  All of the pictures on this page, except the one at left, are from John Kerry's book, so you can't accuse me of trying to create a bad image of him.)

These are Kerry's filthy, unshaven best buds - the anti-war (anti-America) protestors - holding the flag upside down. They're doing a mockery of the raising of the American flag by the brave soldiers at Iwo Jima.

Unfortunately, though, you'd have to pay $500 on eBay to get the book. Before the 2004 Presidential Elections, Kerry bought up all the copies of the treasonous book that he could find and prohibited the publishing of any more, so now the book is out of print. He didn't want anyone to read it. I wonder why.

One of himself, of course - himself at a protestor's event, once again. He looks plenty happy to me, so let's eliminate the possibility of him being taken there against his will. The fact is, he was there, and he participated, leading his scurvy band of brothers against the "band of brothers" he left in Vietnam.

There was flag burning - American flag burning. There were marches, and rallies, demonstrations on the steps of the Capitol Building, and a thousand lies and eloquent, impassioned, memorized speeches told on the Senate floor by Joh Kerry, as our veterans endured torture because they wouldn't admit to falsified atrocities. In short, Kerry gave the enemy for free what our soldiers took torture to avoid saying.

This ought to make you enraged. Don't give me that garbage about him being anti-war - he would have been willing to go to war against America, just not North Vietnam.  He was anti-America.  Believe me, I myself am anti-war in that I believe war is always a last resort and we should never "rush to war", to quote Kerry.  War is ugly, it's terrible, it is a huge waste of lives and other materials, it leaves widows, mothers, and fatherless children.  But this is different.  Make no mistake - he WAS NOT anti war.

Everything he did as a protestor was done while he was still in the Navy, recieving Navy pay, with a Navy ID card in his wallet.  He wasn't even drafted, for crying out loud.  He was there by his own choosing.  But then again, to tell the truth it. was just another asset, another good mark on his resume for when he decided to run for Senator and, eventually, President.  I do not feel bad saying that there was no honorable motive on his part.  His actions while in Vietnam and when he returned attest to that.

Kerry founded, supported and participated in the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) organizations, which, after many protests and speeches delivered by John Kerry and Jane Fonda, who were partners in this dishonorable crime, the general public was partly, if not wholly, convinced that what these "veterans" (many of whom turned out to be fake) were saying was true. 

The soldiers serving in Vietnam were soon successfully transformed from patriotic servicemen to civilian-torturing babykillers who carried out their hateful, demonic atrocities against the innocent civilians of North and South Vietnam "in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan", Kerry said in a stirring speech that he delivered on the Senate floor; a tale of shocking atrocities and proportions.  Without Kerry's sane, all-American boy, supposedly handsome face to put on the crowds of wild-eyed, frizzy-haired, hippie activist demonstrators, the American people may not have fallen for it and still regarded it as little more than a joke.

Thanks to Kerry and Fonda, in particular, the unbelievable stories became believeable.

One night, in an emotional display of contempt for the country that had betrayed them - or so they said - Kerry, along with many others, flung his war medals over a high wire fence in front of the Capitol: a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts.

Imagine the surprise, years later when his protestor image was not quite so popular, when his medals turned up on the wall of his Capitol Hill office and a curious reporter noticed them.  Kerry admitted, then, that the medals he had thrown that day were not his!

And, it was discovered that his heart-felt, emotional, impassioned, off-the-cuff speech had actually been carefully crafted by a speechwriter for Robert Kennedy named Adam Walinsky, who also tutored him on how to present it. TV reporters totally ignored another Vietnam veteran, Melville L. Stephens, a former aide to Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, chief of Naval Operations, who that same day urged the Senate not to abandon America's allies in South Vietnam. "Peace for us must not come at the cost of their lives," Stephens said in a speech he wrote himself.

A CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED PLAN

There is nothing happenstance or unplanned about Kerry's successful rise to power - first the Senate and then a run for the presidency.  By reading his own journal, interviewing his fellow shipmates, commanding officers and medics, we can see what he had in mind all along.

You must be wondering why he was such an anti-war activist during Vietnam if he meant to run for president.  How could throwing away his medals, turning his back on his country and our veterans help him in the least?

He hadn't planned on America being so patriotic as it is now, plain and simple.  If you don't remember, the 60's was supposedly going to be the start of a new age; the hippies were going to take over and the whole country was going to be different.  The anti-authority, anti-discipline, anti-government, anti-military attitude that existed at that time didn't exist during the 2004 elections.  By then things had come full circle, and his anti-war rhetoric was no longer fashionable.

This explains why he had his book go out of print.  It was popular in the 60's, but not anymore.  Tactics were going to have to be changed and plans modified.  He did this rather well.

THE TRUTH ABOUT KERRY'S SERVICE IN VIETNAM?

John Kerry's service in Vietnam lasted 4 months and 12 days, beginning in November 1968 when he reported to Cam Ranh Bay for a month of training. His abbreviated combat tour ended shortly after he requested a transfer out of Vietnam on March 17, 1969, citing Navy instruction 1300.39 permitting personnel with three Purple Hearts to request reassignment. So far as we are able to determine, Kerry was the only Swift sailor ever to leave Vietnam without completing the standard one-year tour of duty, other than those who were seriously wounded or killed.

The action that led to John Kerry's first Purple Heart occurred on December 2, 1968, during the month that he was undergoing training with Coastal Division 14 at Cam Ranh Bay. While waiting to receive his own Swift boat command, Kerry volunteered for a nighttime patrol mission on a small, foam-filled "skimmer" craft under the command of Lt. William Schachte. The two officers were accompanied by an enlisted man who operated the outboard motor. The purpose of the patrol, which Kerry later described as "a half-a**ed action that hardly qualified as combat," was to find Vietcong guerillas moving contraband around a peninsula north of the bay on sampans.

At the target location Kerry saw a group of sampans unloading something on the shore, and lit a flare to illuminate the area. The men from the sampans ran, and Kerry and his crew opened fire. At that point, according to Kerry, "My M-16 jammed, and as I bent down in the boat to grab another gun, a stinging piece of heat socked into my arm and just seemed to burn like hell." (page 147, "Tour of Duty") Kerry and his men strafed the beach, shot up the sampans and returned to Cam Ranh Bay.

As an officer in command (OIC) in training, Kerry reported during this mission to William Schachte, who eventually retired as a Rear Admiral. Schachte flatly contradicts Kerry's claim to have been wounded by enemy fire, saying that after his M-16 jammed, Kerry picked up an M-79 grenade launcher and fired a grenade that exploded too close to the boat, causing a small piece of shrapnel to stick in the skin of his arm. Kerry himself did not report receiving hostile fire that night, which would have been required, and there is no record of hostile fire for the mission.

Kerry succeeded in keeping the small piece of shrapnel in his arm until the following day, when he was treated by Dr. Louis Letson, whose version of the event matches William Schachte's account rather than Kerry's:

I have a very clear memory of an incident which occurred while I was the Medical Officer at Naval Support Facility, Cam Ranh Bay. John Kerry was a (jg), the OinC or skipper of a Swift boat, newly arrived in Vietnam. On the night of December 2, he was on patrol north of Cam Ranh, up near Nha Trang area. The next day he came to sick bay, the medical facility, for treatment of a wound that had occurred that night.

The story he told was different from what his crewmen had to say about that night. According to Kerry, they had been engaged in a fire fight, receiving small arms fire from on shore. He said that his injury resulted from this enemy action.

Some of his crew confided that they did not receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck the rocks.

That seemed to fit the injury which I treated.

What I saw was a small piece of metal sticking very superficially in the skin of Kerry's arm. The metal fragment measured about 1 cm. in length and was about 2 or 3 mm in diameter. It certainly did not look like a round from a rifle.

I simply removed the piece of metal by lifting it out of the skin with forceps. I doubt that it penetrated more than 3 or 4 mm. It did not require probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound.

The wound was covered with a bandaid.

Not [sic] other injuries were reported and I do not recall that there was any reported damage to the boat.

The following morning, John Kerry arrived at the office of Coastal Division 14 Commander Grant Hibbard to apply for a Purple Heart. Having already been informed by Schachte that Kerry's injury was self-inflicted rather than the result of hostile fire, Commander Hibbard told him to "forget it." Hibbard recently said of Kerry's minor scratch, "I’ve seen worse injuries from a rose thorn."

Nevertheless, John Kerry managed to obtain his coveted Purple Heart for this incident nearly three months later after being transferred to Coastal Division 11. The circumstances remain obscure, as there are no written records of this award on file at the Naval Historical Center. Various other documents that might shed light on this award remain unavailable due to Mr. Kerry's refusal to release his complete military records.

Military regulations state that to qualify for a Purple Heart, an injury must come "from an outside force or agent," and treatment for the wound must "have been made a matter of official record." While John Kerry managed to satisfy the second criterion by insisting that an amused Dr. Letson provide an official Band-Aid, nicking himself with a fragment from his own poorly-aimed grenade fails to meet the first qualification.

CHRISTMAS IN CAMBODIA?

On October 14, 1979, John Kerry described a remarkable event from his days as a Swift boat officer for the Boston Herald:

"I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon [sic] claimed there were no American troops was very real." 

President Nixon, of course, did not assume office until January of 1969.

On March 27, 1986, during a speech opposing President Reagan's policy in Central America, Senator John Kerry had this to say:

"Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared - seared - in me, that says to me, before we send another generation into harm's way we have a responsibility in the U.S. Senate to go the last step, to make the best effort possible in order to avoid that kind of conflict." [see Congressional Record - Senate of March 27, 1986, page 3594]

And again, in a 1992 article by the Associated Press:

"But for Kerry, who spent six violent months [sic] commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there's always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia.

"We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there (in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions, which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves.

"I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"' Kerry said.

As recently as May of 2000, U.S. News and World Report stated that, "Sen. John Kerry made his first forays into Cambodia during the Vietnam War as a Navy lieutenant on clandestine missions to deliver weapons to anticommunist forces."

Interestingly, Kerry's Cambodian sojourn, though "seared" into his memory by 1986, somehow failed to rate a mention in Kerry's own contemporary journal.

In "Unfit for Command," authors John O'Neill and Dr. Jerome Corsi document the impossibility of Kerry's story:

Despite the dramatic memories of his Christmas in Cambodia, Kerry’s statements are complete lies. Kerry was never in Cambodia during Christmas 1968, or at all during the Vietnam War. In reality, during Christmas 1968, he was more than fifty miles away from Cambodia. Kerry was never ordered into Cambodia by anyone and would have been court-martialed had he gone there.

During Christmas 1968, Kerry was stationed at Coastal Division 13 in Cat Lo. Coastal Division 13’s patrol areas extended to Sa Dec, about fifty-five miles from the Cambodian border. Areas closer than fifty-five miles to the Cambodian border in the area of the Mekong River were patrolled by PBRs, a small river patrol craft, and not by Swift Boats. Preventing border crossings was considered so important at the time that an LCU (a large, mechanized landing craft) and several PBRs were stationed to ensure that no one could cross the border.

A large sign at the border prohibited entry. Tom Anderson, Commander of River Division 531, who was in charge of the PBRs, confirmed that there were no Swifts anywhere in the area and that they would have been stopped had they appeared.

All the living commanders in Kerry’s chain of command—Joe Streuhli (Commander of CosDiv 13), George Elliott (Commander of CosDiv 11), Adrian Lonsdale (Captain, USCG and Commander, Coastal Surveillance Center at An Thoi), Rear Admiral Roy Hoffmann (Commander, Coastal Surveillance Force Vietnam, CTF 115), and Rear Admiral Art Price (Commander of River Patrol Force, CTF 116)—deny that Kerry was ever ordered to Cambodia. They indicate that Kerry would have been seriously disciplined or court-martialed had he gone there. At least three of the five crewmen on Kerry’s PCF 44 boat—Bill Zaldonis, Steven Hatch, and Steve Gardner—deny that they or their boat were ever in Cambodia. The remaining two crewmen declined to be interviewed for this book. Gardner, in particular, will never forget those days in late December when he was wounded on PCF 44, not in Cambodia, but many miles away in Vietnam.

As part of the supporting documentation given to station managers for the Swift Vets' television ad, "Any Questions?" they provided this regarding John Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia":

The story is a total preposterous fabrication by Kerry. Exhibit 8 is an affidavit by the Commander of the Swift boats in Vietnam, Admiral Roy Hoffmann, stating that Kerry's claim to be in Cambodia for Christmas Eve and Christmas of 1968 is a total lie. If necessary, similar affidavits are available from the entire chain of command. In reality, Kerry was at Sa Dec -- easily locatable on any map more than fifty miles from Cambodia. Kerry himself inadvertently admits that he was in Sa Dec for Christmas Eve and Christmas and not in Cambodia, as he had stated for so many years on the Senate Floor, in the newspapers, and elsewhere. Exhibit 27, Tour, pp. 213-219. Sa Dec is hardly "close" to the Cambodian border. In reality, far from being ordered secretly to Cambodia, Kerry spent a pleasant night at Sa Dec with "visions of sugar plums" dancing in his head. Exhibit 27, p. 219. At Sa Dec where the Swift boat patrol area ended, there were many miles of other boats (PBR's) leading to the Cambodian border. There were also gunboats on the border to prevent any crossing. If Kerry tried to get through, he would have been arrested. Obviously, Kerry has hardly been honest about his service in Vietnam.

John Kerry was never shot at by Khmer Rouge and Cambodians. He never took CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves. In fact, John Kerry's boat never came within 50 miles of Cambodia.

Click on the picture at left to go to the Stolen Honor website.  Or, download the "Stolen Honor" documentary here by right-clicking and then selecting "Save Target As..." (plays with Windows Media Player).