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Squaredeal

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16. What did he do?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu Feb 14, 2013, 01:46 PM

Feb 2013

Wear a band aid with a Purple Heart on it during the hearing, just like the VFW members did to John Kerry to ridicule his military service to his country in Vietnam when he was addressing their convention, while they supported AWOL George Bush, whose daddy pulled political strings to keep his son out of the war?

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