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Those medals that Kerry may or may not have earned,
did he or did he not throw them away?

As the Boston Globe reported on April 24, 1971, "John 
Kerry of Waltham, Mass., a former Navy lieutenant . . . 
said before he threw his medals over the fence: `I'm not 
doing this for any violent reasons, but for peace and 
justice, and to try to make this country wake up once and 
for all.' 

BUT THEN LATER:

 During his 1996 re-election campaign, he told the Globe 
that he only threw the ribbons pinned to his uniform. 
"Asked why he didn't bring his own medals to throw since it 
was planned weeks in advance," the Globe reported on Oct. 
6, 1996, "Kerry said it was because he didn't have time to 
go home [to New York] and get them." The medals he was seen 
tossing, he claimed, belonged to *two* other veterans -- 
the one from Lincoln and one from New York. "Kerry says he 
can't remember their names."

from a good article at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/jj20040430.shtml

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Yes or no, Did John Kerry throw away the medals he got
in Vietnam? If so, why?