The Last Candle

The big stir these days surrounding possible Democratic Party nominee John Kerry is the discussion over his medals during a 1971 protest. Most recently and perhaps most terrible for the man, Kerry had an interview on Good Morning America by Charlie Gibson and couldn’t make past and present statements match. Did he throw the medals? Or just the ribbons? Or did he only throw some ribbons? Were all of the medals actually his? <p/> It’s like throwing an axe at a bulls-eye, but aiming for the car behind it instead of the should-be target. He threw the ribbons or medals or someone else’s medals, okay? Maybe the guy next to him threw anti-war muffins baked by a widow. Fine. But the tossing evidently meant something significant to him at the time. People are getting caught up over the medals themselves. Thankfully, someone with insight such as political/war blogger Lt. Smash brought up some questions that are important to his character today that Kerry should address, instead of fighting this business about which part of what made it over the fence. Much more to the point of the campaign than ribbons and metal 30 years ago:

Why did Kerry take part in the symbolic act of �returning� his decorations? Is he ashamed of what he did in Vietnam? If so, why does he repeatedly bring up his service in the context of the political campaign?

Bingo. Three other questions at Lieutenant Smash’s place.