Thursday, August 19, 2004
 Before he was a 9-11 "Warren" Commissioner, John Lehman was Secretary of the Navy under Reagan; when he was kind enough to give John Kerry a Bronze Star more than a decade after he returned from Vietnam.
From Washington Times' "Inside Politics" August 19, 2004:Uneven military service records have proved toxic to John Kerry's campaign for president, prompting him to post his full military record on his Web site (www.johnkerry.com) for critics to peruse.
But one sharp-eyed Washington Times reader -- a former B-52 pilot and U.S. Air Force colonel -- isn't buying Mr. Kerry's pre-emptive strike.
"I looked at that Web site and the first thing I looked at was Kerry's Silver Star citation. Guess what? It is for an action that took place in 1969, but it is signed by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. Strangely, Lehman was secretary of the Navy from 1981 to 1987," he noted.
"How could Kerry have received a citation from an official that would not be in office for 12 years? This was NOT just a case of providing a new copy of a citation for the office to replace one that was lost (destroyed/thrown over a wall). This effort by Lehman & Kerry actually changed Kerry's official Navy record, sometime in the 80s," he continued.
"What other portions of his record did Kerry have Lehman sanitize or spiffy up? Evidently, Kerry did not think his original Silver Star made him look 'heroic' enough, so he provided 'suggested' words for a new certificate. This certainly calls Kerry's entire Navy record into question." John Forbes Kerry was elected to the United States Senate in 1984.
- The document from SecNavy Lehman awarding the Bronze Star is posted to JohnKerry.com
 here here and here.
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