(2004-08-23) — Democrat presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry today donated several of his own medals to South Korean gymnast Yang Tae-young, who fell short of an Olympic gold medal this week due to a judging error.
“That young man’s uneven parallel bar routine is seared…seared in my memory,” said Mr. Kerry, who is also a U.S. Senator. “Since I had these medals just lying around the house-the ones I earned in Vietnam-I thought it would cheer him up.”
The Democrat candidate said he personally delivered the decorations to the South Korean Embassy in Washington.
“The embassy was closed, so I tossed them over the fence,” he said. “There were some ribbons or some medals…I don’t remember. Anyway, ribbons and medals were absolutely interchangeable in the Navy.”
A spokesman for the Kerry-Edwards campaign said the altruistic act demonstrates that Mr. Kerry is not the kind of man described in the new book by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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1 The LLama Butchers // Aug 27, 2004 at 3:27 pm
Afternoon snarf, part deux
Remember the scene in Ghostbusters when Howard Ramis tells the guys: whatever you do, don’t cross the streams? Baaad things happen when you cross the streams. But like that’s going to stop Scott Ott: Kerry to donate medals to Korean…